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Subject: EGOISM & EGOTISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation
Last Line: With hands stretched out—and feet that stray and falter.
Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations


INDWELLING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou couldst empty all thyself of self
Last Line: "it is so small and full, there is no room for me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Egoism & Egotism


LITTLE EGO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You mustn't smile when I stroke your hair
Last Line: Well, what are you smiling at now?
Subject(s): Egoism & Egotism; Hair


SELF-CENTERED, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the only day that I was born
Last Line: At which time I was the beginning
Subject(s): Egoism & Egotism


THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, SELECTION, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: Frequent oil your safety-clutch.
Subject(s): Death; Egoism & Egotism; Holidays; Noses; Physicians; Social Protest; Dead, The; Doctors


THE IMMORAL PROPOSITION, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you never do anything for anyone else
Subject(s): Egoism & Egotism