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Subject: FREIGHT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRUCKER BREAKS DOWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembering himself pulling onto a highway
Last Line: Flowing down through absolute darkness into a pool of rising vapor.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Solitude; Southern States; Trucks & Trucking; Loneliness; South (u.s.); Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Years ago he drove a different route
Last Line: Him backwards as far as his mind will haul.
Subject(s): Ford Motor Company; Southern States; Temperance; Trucks & Trucking; South (u.s.); Prohibition; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven
Last Line: And look out for the crazies.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


JOSEPH'S REFORM (A TALE OF THE HOT DOG TAVERN), by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was just a gay young buck, I piloted a heavy truck
Last Line: "I never use such language, but it warms my heart to hear it."
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Reformation; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


MCCARTHY'S BREW: A GULF COUNTRY YARN, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The teams of black mccarthy crawled adown the norman road
Last Line: Gulf whisky kills at twenty yards, but this stuff kills at sight!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Trucks & Trucking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


ROUND THE BEND, by WILL LAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Round the bend where the pungas grow
Last Line: And his was an easy mind.
Subject(s): Banjos; Idleness; Musical Instruments; Trucks & Trucking; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


SALT, by A. S. ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I crossed the bogong plains that night on the box of a cobb and co.
Last Line: But only I and the horses heard jim's cry from the depths below.
Subject(s): Cattle; Salt; Story-telling; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


THE CARTER, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, I be a carter wi' my whip
Last Line: The heavy lwoad do slowly ride.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


THE LIGHTS OF COBB AND CO., by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men
Last Line: A hundred miles shall see tonight the lights of cobb and co!
Subject(s): Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


THE TEAMSTER, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With slow and slouching gait sam leads the team
Last Line: Is little may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


THE TRUCK DRIVER, by EDITH HARRIET JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: He came out from the house
Last Line: American.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight