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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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forgive

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Saying Sorry

Submitted by Dreamsprite on March 10, 2008 - 20:48.

We got into another fight again.
My My
I didn't mean to throw
those barrettes near your eyes.
Sorry, really!
I think?
I'm not so sure anymore.
S-o-r-r-y
hmm.
If that word were non-existent
my daily speech would be petrified!
I guess that means I should saunter back up the stairs
to say,
"Forgive me. I think my aim was off, I was going for your head."

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Passing By

Submitted by ParisianTwist on December 6, 2007 - 21:28.

She wears the time on her sleeve,
the past ripping her clothes to shreds,
the future stitching it back together again.

Perhaps,
at one point.
she was what they would call
"Broken"
each fresh bruise on her arm,
each new line on her hips,
each painful step
One.
More.
Lie.

Perhaps,
she had tried to cover it so well.
The grades.
The extra time,
The extra friends.
The classes,

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