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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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essence

offreadin's picture
sometimes i just want
to strip away
all your fancy languange
lower case your is
drop your commas
drag your grammar
thru the mud
deflower your flowery languange
pick at the mortar
throw away the bricks
you used to build your facade
i want to excavate the ruins
of the lost civilizations
of your mind
i want to throw
ever fiber of my being
at you
and hope that not all of it
gets
rejected
accept enough for me to plant the parasite
that will eat away
at the last of your style
and form
so i get to know
and you don't lose
your essence

because thats the one part of you
that i care about

loverofbeauty's picture

excellent, i love all of it,

Submitted by loverofbeauty on July 16, 2008 - 13:00.

excellent, i love all of it, the only thing is it slightly bothered me that you used " language" twice so close together
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Pain is weakness leaving the body

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