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Subject: AUTOPSIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot tell you, coroner, the cause / of death of elenor murray, not until
Last Line: The mother of this man in tokio.
Subject(s): Autopsies; Death; Hearts; Dead, The


MORGUE: 1. LITTLE ASTER, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: A drowned truck-driver was propped on the slab
Last Line: Little aster!
Subject(s): Asters; Autopsies; Expressionism - Poets; Flowers; Morgues


MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: The mouth of a girl who had long lain among the reeds looked gnawed away
Last Line: Oh, how the little muzzles squeaked!
Subject(s): Autopsies; Death - Children; Expressionism - Poets; Morgues; Death - Babies