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Contemplate Your Navel

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Contemplate your navel.
Engage in apathy.
Permit omphaloskepsis.
Enjoy the lethargy.

Contemplate your navel.
Engage in abstraction.
Permit omphaloskepsis.
Enjoy the inaction.

Contemplate your navel.
Engage in indolence.
Permit omphaloskepsis.
Enjoy the quiescence.

Contemplate your navel.
Engage in laziness.
Permit omphaloskepsis.
Enjoy the craziness.

Contemplate your navel.
Engage in attitude.
Permit omphaloskepsis.
Enjoy the latitude.

Contemplate your navel.
Engage in reflection.
Permit omphaloskepsis.
Enjoy the connection.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AbCb AdCd AcCc AcCc AeCe AdCd
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 507
Words 66
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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