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Subject: COMPLACENCY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COMPLACENCY, by LEON VASILYADIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Floating on the surface, %unaware of the dangers beneath
Last Line: As we're devoured in an instant %by the cataracts of life
Subject(s): Complacency


IT'S SNUG TO BE SMUG, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, sometimes when I wish I had the wings of an angel
Last Line: I guess I'll stay just as I am
Subject(s): Complacency


LOVED ONCE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I classed, appraising once
Last Line: Who dream that they loved once.
Subject(s): Complacency; Despair