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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.
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Where Do the Words Come From?

Submitted by pineapple_babbit on November 9, 2007 - 10:32.

Words stir
From within
Me.
What
Are they
About?
What
Do they
Mean?
They come out as
Poetry,
Sometimes it
Rhymes,
And other times,
It doesn’t.
They are parts of me,
But parts I do not
Recognize.
I will come to be
Familiar
With them.
Maybe.
But I hope the words
Never
Stop.

Relaxed

Submitted by wbrown on October 1, 2007 - 15:27.

I haven’t always understood
what it takes
or whether feeling bare
minimum, sometimes above
the average toil
is understandable, relatable.

I’ve sometimes taken
life as a fancy,
which has temporarily
made me accepting, rarely
discovering that this slumber
has failed the Darwinian test.

Some days I’m taller than
the days I’m shorter, then
I’m the tallest and

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