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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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Hand Writing III

Usagi's picture

I honestly hadn't expected to write another one so soon, but my hand's covered with black letters. I figured I'd better get them down before they fade into a messy mass that always looks like the word "particular" badly spelled.

I taste a liquor never brewed--the first line of an Emily Dickinson poem about the intoxicating power of nature. Of course, I in my four-hours-of-sleep-last-night state of mind choose to take it more literally, and had an extended conversation with myself about future alcohol, alcohol that never will exist, and if you can taste or, indeed, consume liquor that hasn't actually been made yet. I finally concluded that it would all make sense if you drank enough.

You killed my monkey!--I kept fighting the urge to say that all day.

Vilesome--another Greenie quote. It was uttered during Geometry, about quadratic equations. Apparently she did not have a pleasant experience with them last year. She still flinches at the word "parabola."

Why do people keep reading my hand?--*Coughimagine* (She managed to decipher it from two desks away. Or one and a half, if you want to be technical. It's still quite a feat.)

Geist's picture

You flatter me. Also, I

You flatter me.

Also, I looked up ink poisoning.

It only adversely effects your health if you chug more than 15 ml of the stuff, and can't be absorbed through the skin effectively.

So keep writing these please! *dual thumbs up*
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"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." -William Dement

squeejay's picture

stellar...

thats just to cool...

if ever in need of pointless phrases and nonsensical verbiage, take a look at "tender buttons" by Gertrude Stein...

cheers.
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A thousand tears rolling down your cheek are healed by a single tear on the shoulder of a friend.

misilover's picture

If you poscast the fuck

If you poscast the fuck poem, my day will be made.

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