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Subject: CORPORATE LIFE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHESS, by ERIC BOWDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is a pawn
Last Line: But they are mere pawns in the corporation, %and will never be heard
Subject(s): Chess; Corporate Life


CORPORATE ENTITY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oklahoma ligno and lithograph co.
Last Line: Weeps at a nude by michelangelo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Corporate Life


CORPORATE MEETING, by STANLEY MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not an oblong, as one would envision
Last Line: Unfathomable hours that seem %to glide from coffee to coffee
Subject(s): Business; Corporate Life


IRA WILL NOT BE ATTENDING THE MEETING, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Full Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When working on a small scale
Subject(s): Corporate Life


LIFERS, by FRED VOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The new steelworker
Last Line: Let themselves become veterans
Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Steel


MODUS VIVENDI, by J. MACEKURA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is your ofice out to get you?
Last Line: That stalks the unwary %like a rapist %in the night
Subject(s): Corporate Life


PROGRESS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He hadn't once called his committee
Last Line: "and ""I report progress,"" said he."
Subject(s): Corporate Life


PROSPERITY, by FRED VOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The big company bought the little company
Last Line: Became clear to the workers
Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Industry; Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Money


THE PROMOTION, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend has become an administrator.
Subject(s): Corporate Life


WHAT THE ANIMALS DID, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They got so hungry they all
Last Line: Ate the more they wanted
Subject(s): Corporate Life