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Subject: DETECTIVE STORIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BODY ENGLISH, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say something about still life
Last Line: Unique.
Subject(s): Detective Stories


CORONER'S REPRIEVE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the third time in a week he dreams
Last Line: Or pride, ingenious with his lust, determined %enough to die
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Detective Stories


DETECTIVE NOVEL, by JOHN RICHARD REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: The point is to hurt
Subject(s): Detective Stories


DETECTIVE STORY, by DORI APPEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was it something I ate
Subject(s): Detective Stories; Food And Eating


DETECTIVE STORY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is ever quite without his landscape
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Detective Stories


DETECTIVE STORY, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house. Under the porte-cochere. In the vestibule. On the parquet.
Last Line: In bed with the room. In the hall. On foot. In the hall. In the house. %in the room in the house
Subject(s): Detective Stories


DETECTIVE STORY, by E. M. SCHORB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Came in two hip nuns in unnunlike funny
Last Line: To see what else was going down, root %out some more crime, and then take it in a flick
Subject(s): Detective Stories


DETECTIVE STORY, by JOHN HARTLEY WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have an ache in the dark,' he said
Last Line: So now that you know where truth is,' she said, %'go out & forget her. And go home'
Subject(s): Detective Stories


EXAMINATION I, by LARS LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw her
Last Line: An unreality with the scent of a camellia
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Detective Stories; Murder


JANUARY 24, NEW YORK, by KAY BOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one corner of the dormitory, near the roof, was a pigeon-cote in which
Last Line: Rosary,' said the kingpin in a high falsetto, 'I warn you I'll scream.'
Subject(s): Detective Stories; Prisons And Prisoners


KGB SEX SCHOOL FOR SPIES: MEN CALLED RAVENS, WOMEN SWALLOWS, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was either the house of love
Last Line: I was sent from the city with my possessions, %and all was slaughter
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Obedience; Prisons And Prisoners


MAN WHO NEVER COMES BACK, by THOM TAMMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's always in his 60s or 70s
Last Line: A long time for you. We thought you'd never come
Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Mystery; News; Newspapers


MORPHO, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In his journey to the jade sea
Last Line: The mutilated girl with butterflies upon her
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Murder; Rape


OWL WRITES A DETECTIVE STORY, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stately home where doves, in dovecotes, coo
Last Line: But who? But who? Who, who, who, who, who, who?
Subject(s): Birds; Detective Stories; Owls


PRIVATE EYE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To find clues where there are none
Subject(s): Detective Stories


PRIVATE EYE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To find clues where there are none
Last Line: I'm not closing up till he breaks
Subject(s): Detective Stories


SEARCH, by YANNIS RITSOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come in, gentlemen - he said. No inconvenience. Look through everything
Last Line: Who planted these in here?
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Detective Stories; Forgery; Human Rights


SPY WANDERS THROUGH THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON, by JOAN BROSSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man wears an overcoat and grey boots
Last Line: A man with a mustache takes out his glasses
Subject(s): Detective Stories; Wanderers And Wandering


THE FATIGUE OF OBJECTS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the victim's room
Last Line: For the fingerprints of the murderer
Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Murder; Dead, The