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Subject: CONSUMERISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONSUMER'S REPORT, by PETER PORTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The name of the product I used
Last Line: I'd like to leave until I get %the competitive product you said you'd send
Subject(s): Consumerism


EPIGRAMMATICK SKETCH, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prithee do you know tom tweezer
Last Line: "and my duck will want a new one!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Consumerism; Fashion


GOD BLESS AMERICA!, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is walking home from the post
Last Line: All that and god bless america!
Subject(s): Consumerism


HOMAGE TO PHILIP K. DICK; FOR PAUL COOK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The illegal ditch riders of the previous night
Last Line: "his prophet."" stop it. Please stop it."
Subject(s): Cody, William (buffalo Bill) (1846-1917); Consumerism; Dick, Philip Kindred (1928-1982); God


IN HERITAGE FARMS, SETTLED, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In their tennis whites, their pastel izods, all day the women
Last Line: Of the hornworm inching toward the wings of the phoenix moth.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Consumerism; Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction


LIFE CYCLE OF COMMON MAN, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits
Last Line: Telling the numberless tale of his untold word %which makes the world his apple, and forces him to e
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Consumerism; Modern Man


MANHATTAN DELI, by ANTHONY TRACY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These plastic sunglasses %are cheap by consumer standards
Last Line: Clearing their throats %and naming thier dues
Subject(s): Consumerism; New York City


POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take it from me kiddo
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Advertising; Consumerism


POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take it from me kiddo
Last Line: Comes out like a ribbon lies flat on the brush
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Advertising; Consumerism


SHORT HISTORY OF THE BOURGEOISIE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That was the moment when, %without noticing it, for five minutes
Last Line: In five minutes, the roast beef wellington %would have tasted different, quite different
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Consumerism; Wealth


TO MISS FLIRTILLA LANGUISH, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flirtilla, the pride of the street
Last Line: If I failed for to warm her myself.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Consumerism; Women