by Cheryl Marly

Created on: December 31, 2008

"Just take what you got and put it

All together."

If you throw in some pretty words,

It'll make it

All better.

Keep tellin' yourself.

Oh, but you don't have a thought?

Well, what ya gonna do with nothing?

And with your mind, you've fought,

But now you're pullin it, like, low-key.

That isn't gonna fly like

You wish it would.

And procrastinating

Isn't gonna make it "all good"

So, take your excuses

And turn em into reasons

To WRITE!

And not leave your 'folio with lesions

So yeah, pick up that pen

Ooops I mean put down webpage

And find yourself a topic

Get to it, before you age

Don't worry 'bout the pretty,

Jus' keep those words flowin'

You'll have a piece before you know and

Then comes the happy you get every time

When the screen gets all filled up.

It's like Pizza-In-A-Cup,

Yeah I'm a jerk

But there's nothing keeping me from

Gettin' to work,

'Cause I've got the time anyway.

No need waiting for a rainy day;

It's the perfect storm

Right in here

Where it's nice and warm.

Take that, Block! and it is your world

That I, the writer, am going to rock.

Ah, well. Nevermind that.

My desk is warm

Because my arm so long there sat.

Leave the edit behind and off I go

Into another place where I can show

Off my skills in all their

Lackluster glory.

Smoke another cigarette,

Come up with a story

Why I still have no substance

To write down with this pen

Maybe it'll come to me then.

Until that time, I'll do my best

To pretend

That once I'm done typing

I should actually hit Send.

OK "publish", so it happens to be,

It's all one in the same.

One thing is certain though -

Having nothing to say

Is positively pretty lame.

Maybe it's the way you say it.

With all that said, I guess

I might hit that "I'm Done" button,

See how "nothing at all" looks

When it's in print.

And hopefully not worry about

The many long minutes I spent

On this.

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