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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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Club Strange

Submitted by getsmart.er on June 29, 2008 - 15:36.

With these words
I hope to convey to you
A sense of knowing.
More so, at least
Than the words
Shared with me
At my entrance to this
Strange club
This strange feeling.

Beware, because
There are those who
Would harm you
Around every corner.
They lurk in your
weaknesses.
They find their strengths
In your slow
But sure
Deterioration.

Beware, because
Nothing here
Is what it seems.
These doorways mean to
hold back, not inspire.
And the people waiting behind
Them, should you make it that
far would painfully,
without
feeling
kill you.

No, your body wouldn't
Stop functioning.
But your soul would.
And before you shirk
This advice
Ask yourself
If that is any better.

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Woah,

Submitted by NonSequitur on June 29, 2008 - 16:06.

Woah, meta-poetry.
Nice.
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