Tummy Button
It wobbles in limbo, like the night
Just waiting for that poking finger to come
And scratch it whilst checking to see if the fluff fairy has visited
again
Oh my Tummy-Button of mine
Why are you their, I wonder, sadly
Scanning my brain for reason and rhyme so badly
To make sense of this little hole nestling there
Like a button
And as my belly expands to fill my horizons
Like some grotesque inflated prosecutor downing another bear
Nee'r more will my sweet little underneath bits swing happily into
view each
time I go for a wee wee
As Tummy-Button, o! my Tummy Button eclipses all in its path
And one or two people have actually
taken this thing serously, so here's the anotated version...
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My Tummy-Button (dig at poetic self-absorbedness)
**It wobbles in limbo, like the night
(unoriginal, badly executed rehash of a classic, and
besides, nights
don't wobble)
**Just waiting for that poking finger to come
**And scratch it whilst checking to see if the fluff fairy has
visited again
(awfully long, non-scanning, prose-like prosaic sentence /
fluff a
veiled reference to light and fluffy crap sent to writing lists, not
this
one of course...)
**Oh my Tummy-Button of mine
(useless repetition of
possessive, attempt to
sound poetic: fails / no rhyme)
**Why are you their, I wonder, sadly
(oops, Spelling Mistake)
**Scanning my brain for reason and rhyme so badly
(juxtawotsit of the words 'scanning', 'rhyme' and 'badly'
not
accidental, but possibly concealed to those of little brain by the
fact that
'rhyme and reason' is a valid expression; also exhibits bitter irony
as the
person who wrote this obviously doesn't have a brain)
**To make sense of this little hole nestling there
(awful, school girl/boy nonsense / trying to be poetic
again - failing
again)
**Like a button
(holes don't 'nestle' nor do they look anything like
buttons / silly
short last line)
**And as my belly expands to fill my horizons
(how many you got, then?)
**Like some grotesque inflated prosecutor drowning another bear
(the expression 'grotesque inflated prose...' seems to have
eluded most
quite effectively... / how can you drown a liquid, never mind an
enormous
animal who can probably look after himself much better than you ever
could?
/ 'bear' - oops, Spelling Mistake)
**Nee'r more will my sweet little underneath bits swing happily
into view
each time I go for a wee-wee
(should be "ne'er", of course, not "nee'r" or "n'eer" ;-)
/
ridiculously long, nonsense-ridden line / not an ounce of poetry in
sight)
**As Tummy-Button, o! my Tummy Button eclipses all in its path
( "o!" pathetic attempt to sound poetic - fails + clumsy
mixed
metaphor...)
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