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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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M.P.D.

Geist's picture

Twitch. Wrench. Breathe. Start again.

This isn't what was supposed to happen.

Twitch. Once. Twice. Over and over.

Love, ha, love, love, love is so informal, so wrong on so many levels for so many yet so right!

Wrench, yelp, scream, untwist.

Stop talking and laughing and poking and scraping and cutting and tearing and killing me. All of you. Every single one of you. Go away.

Lyrics from "1,000,000" loop like a broken record:
"Put the gun,
In my mouth,
Close your eyes,
blow my fucking brains out,
pretty patterns,
on the floor-"

Breathe. Hard. Harder. Suck the air from the earth. Throw it all back up. Count the teeth as they tumble out.

Is this my hand running through my hair? Was it my idea to write these words? How can my purpose for life be my own?

Geist: writer. Skulker. Diseased. Opinionated. Ignored.

Nick: lover. Talker. Healthy. Agreeable. Heard.

The lines are getting harder to find. Grope around for another strand, one more barrier to put up to stem the overflow from one into the other, help me stop the bleeding, please, it's just one cut and it won't happen again I promise but I'm not sure if they do, never mind, I'll just curl up and die because I'd rather do that than live a life without companionship or love or friends or hate or enemies or any of that because that's useless and I'm useless and please leave me alone so I can kill the chorus in my head now thank you.

Start again.

That's all I can do.

Geist's picture

Edited.

Edited.

ParisianTwist's picture

I'm tempted to incoorporate

I'm tempted to incoorporate the last paragraph into lyrics...

may I?
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
-Voltaire

Real Eyes: realize: real lies

Geist's picture

Of course. -Geist

Of course.

-Geist

Usagi's picture

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Shit, N, you okay?

gradster1's picture

It would appear not.

Wow. Doesn't look that way.

I'm hoping this is just poetry...

/gradster(1)/

http://nmhwu.wordpress.com/

Geist's picture

Just a little mental

Just a little mental venting.

If you haven't noticed, I sometimes have trouble with corralling my thoughts into coherent ideas. Mindsets are necessary for organization. Mindsets, if not attended, develop their own personality.

That is where my frustration is coming from.

This is also a continuation of sorts for 'Schizzometry'.

-Geist

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