Why I Write, Part x+210: I've Praised Deadlines

In the past, I've praised deadlines

As inspiration full, most fine,

So now it's time that I come clean–

In writing my new novel teen,

I have stumbled, failed right through

A pair of deadlines, one and two,

and now that my I've-gone-seventy-two-hours-without-sleep-before-

and-I'll-do-it-again-if-I-have-to deadline approaches,

I wonder what the cause for hope is,

But I'll write to be right, to keep moving along,

Or else, forced to write, and in verse, say “I'm wrong.