Procrastination

I'm supposed to be writing an English paper,
but there's much poetic creation.
I haven't slept very well these last nights,
so there's no preparation.
This paper is due tomorrow, friends,
at eleven in the morn.
Yet I have little motivation
to birth this paper born.
I've had bronchitis the last week or so,
and it's been hard to stay concentrated,
when I cough when I breathe and I'm sick all day,
but there's already so much time I've wasted.
So instead of writing my compare and contrast
on scholarships and student loans,
I'm writing a poem about procrastination,
and blaming it on broken bones.
But there are no bones broken,
and I should probably write
my 700-1250 word English paper,
so I can be done for the night.
I need to be done with this class,
and pass with motivation,
so that I can get the freaking hell
off academic probation.

-LJ
6 April 2016