humor

Procrastination

you set the alarm early
for extra shilly-shallying,
some double dilly-dallying
and other types of fannying
around

you were always very good at procrastination
when you put your mind to it

you set your clock back,
saying it had a face
only a mother could love

later,
fed up
at being wound up,
it wouldn’t give you the time of day

you were always
very good at art

you would draw
attention, short straws,
blood and sometimes
even the curtains

until, one day,
you drew a blank