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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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Sasha Pellerin

Blind Time

Blind Time

I sat there waiting with my feet in the water. Wait. How does one wait? Some people stare at the clock endlessly or watch TV. Or go for a walk or even dress up and some people sleep. But not me, not I. I sit here with my feet in the water motionless… watching nothing like I was a picture. Unframed UN colored UN painted. And the water stood so still nothing but the wind and a fish or two moved it. But as I wait I count the clouds, the breaths, home many times I blink, and the yawns I make. I just wait for something new to happen. Something new to move the water. Something new to count. I am waiting for something. But I don’t know what I am waiting for. Or what it is. So why do we wait. And how do we wait. Is there a right or wrong way to wait? Do was have to fallow steps? All I know is that everyone waits, waits for something we can’t see.

~Sasha Pellerin

Pain

My Pain

It’s all coming back now.
The pain and lots of tears
and the memories of the fire come rushing back now.
It hurts so bad the needles and the pain.
I feel like I'm trapped in this body (if you call it that.)
I’m all alone…forever who knows.
No on to talk to at all.
No one understands.
To be treated this way was one of my worse nightmares, come true.
That is my pain.

~ Sasha Pellerin

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