Poem

     
      Alyssa sat on her bed
      Staring at the blank page before her
      She sat and stared
      As she had been doing for an hour
     
      How was she to write
      The most interesting story of her life
      On the dull subject
      Of a man and his busy wife?

      She went downstairs
      And eat an enormous snack
      She went back upstairs
      And took a very long nap

      She pondered a bath
      And she longed for a shower
      She sat on her bed
      And at the paper did glower

      Her mind wandered far
      Then it came back for a spell
      Her mom left in a car
      Then she knew all would be well

      The story could be on
      The life of her mother and father
      How they met when young
      With waiting could never bother

      How they stayed together
      When they wanted to give in
      How her mother worked all day
      And her father stayed home with his gin

      So she sat down and wrote
      Letting the words pour onto the page
      And for once in her life
      Procrastination had saved the day