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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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Lucy Baby III

Submitted by rebecca_v on May 7, 2008 - 19:36.

III.
People used to say
I was pretty.

Look at your gorgeous eyes.
You don’t even need a halo, do you?

Sometimes questions
About my eyes
And my smile.

Did you get those pretty curls
From your Daddy?

I was silent.
I was always so quiet as a kid.
My mother called me distant
And my mute little girl.

She had to explain me.
She’s just shy.
Doesn’t even talk to her own mother.

Then those polite
Adult laughs.

And then mothers would say
Oh, but she’s so pretty!

She must get those curls from her father,
Yeah?

What father?
What daddy?
What?

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This whole series is very powerful.

Submitted by SnowStars on May 11, 2008 - 13:39.

I love the suprising endings!

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