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Run Away, Don't Delay
One night, my son was watching his big screen TV alone, and I decided to join him. He was watching a show__1__there were college students going to a gettogether in Washington DC, and__2__the thousands who gathered there to celebrate something. When they got there, they started becoming__3__in drinking, and doing drugs. I didn't want to watch it any more, so got up and went to bed.
About 3?30 a.m. I awoke, and lay there thinking about__4__, and a poem began forming in my mind, which began as, “__5__sin(something wrong)comes calling, or knocking at your door, run away, don't delay,__6__sin is like a magnet, and it will pull you down, run away, do not__7__.” As I lay there, there was music which__8__it, and I knew that there was no way I would remember it by__9__, so I got up and sat at the table, trying to__10__both the words and the music which came to me at the time.__11__the pattern was set, and I had the notes written down in my notebook, the__12__of the poem came to me as well.
When it got__13__I decided to sit down at the piano and began trying to play it. My family came into the sitting room and I told them about the song, and wanted to__14__it with them. They all liked it, and__15__several times that day, I sang it again, and played it again, trying to fix it in my__16__.
Later, I wanted to put the song on paper__17__just the little dots in my notebook indicating how high and how__18__to go. Not knowing how to do that, I__19__the song, and then sent it to my sister, Jennie, who had written many songs using her own poetry and music, and soon, here came the music and words all done up__20__. I was so glad.
文章大意:一天晚上,“我”和儿子一起看电视。受到电视中情节的启发,“我”写了一首诗并谱上曲。