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Reptile Ate Worksheet

I admit that I won’t hand in my homework before the deadline but time is a difficult concept when you are covered in scales that weigh you down and you are a perfectionist procrastinator your claws dig into the task and wings are covered in fantasy The reptile of your imagination attempts to take off in fancy but the crumbled pages of flight control head space object to imperfection smudged lines grammar syntax and repetition while you as the writer and the protagonist lose absent plots Fumes spout from a brain on overdrive and lost speed control maybe the magic mushrooms were out of date and sedatives failed to settle down a mind full of passion and hard graft lost in space when agitation mixes with insomnia and pills’ antagonistic effects Surely the teacher can’t fail you on effort ten out of ten for trying to create more than a title caption that wiggles from the shivers not to conform to old templates and hand in sub-standard work a genius does not submit to outdated prescriptions nor norms You decide that a kind flaming pterodactyl came to your rescue takes the blame in brilliant disguise for creating blank meaning Miss that is when it occurred to me to become a dinosaur instead you will appreciate that there is a distinction and you are a dragon 09th February 2021

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