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Subject: DILLINGER, JOHN (1902-1934)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 1., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He drives north, 300 miles
Last Line: Then he misses billie who is in jail. %they are already on his trail
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 2., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: J. Edgar hoover flails the roadside
Last Line: No guns, horns, or whistles. %he has survived, in these pristine woods
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 3., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He looks at who he was, before he dies-
Last Line: Off playing poker with the boys %or smooching at the picture show
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


DILLINGER IN WISCONSIN: 4., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stops beside the road
Last Line: Hot copper moves over his lips. %he strokes his groin, harder! Harder!
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Wisconsin


FRAGMENTS FROM AMERICA I LOVE YOU, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a little black
Last Line: Don't like johnson %or goldwater either
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); United States


NIGHT ACCIDENT: 1., by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dillinger, 'public enemy no. 1,'
Last Line: Your wife and kids at home, load your derringers
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934)


RADIO REPORT, by ROBERT PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dillinger stopped for gas in guttenberg, iowa, with three othermen
Last Line: The police scattered and hid in the cornfields. 5dillinger crashed through and drove on
Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934)


SHOOTING OF JOHN DILLINGER OUTSIDE THE BIOGRAPH THEATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy sunday
Last Line: With three unknown vice presidents, benjamin harrison, and james whitcomb riley, %who never held any
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Indiana


THE SHOOTING OF JOHN DILLINGER OUTSIDE THE BIOGRAPH THEATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy sunday
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dillinger, John (1902-1934); Indiana