8:46

there are all the things I could do with three minutes alone in my room

I have an essay to write and Hebrew to study

I have things to look up and notifications to check

there are all the things I could do with three minutes alone in my room

but

I prefer to watch the last bits of dusk be swallowed by the night

and I prefer to put off for tomorrow what I could've done today.

OverTheRainbow

VT

12 years old

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    submission for next year's prompts:

    Use the NY Times Connections as a writing prompt! Take all 16 or one line of the words generated in there (before it's been solved) and use them in a poem or short story.

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    from well-meaning mouths & shatter on concrete radiating summer sun

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