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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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A couple of thoughts

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At my VYWC workshop the leader had us write a few mini-ideas and here are some of mine:

My lost words and actions
Never echoed the way I had imagined they could,
Instead they timidly sunk to a grimy bedroom floor
Where I know my arms will never be quite long enough
To reach them and claim them again.

One word stares determinedly at my beating breast
As if it could form a shape inside,
A shape of an emotion
An emotion that swims in empty lakes and flooded puddles.

The darker sun beats down upon the shoulders of a working class
Who have to punch limbs of Mother Nature
In order to feed the newborns and keep the aged.

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