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Subject: GASOLINE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AIR, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the open window, a confusion
Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath.
Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness


COPYRIGHT RENEWAL UNDER THE TEXACO STAR, by JEFFREY L. DYE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sass pumping my gas
Last Line: How susanna burned those elders down
Subject(s): Gasoline


ENERGY: A VILLANELLE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The logs give back, in burning, solar fire
Last Line: Nothing is lost but , still the cost grows higher
Subject(s): Gasoline


ENERGY: A VILLANELLE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The logs give back, in burning, solar fire
Last Line: Nothing is lost but, still, the cost grows higher
Subject(s): Gasoline


EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of self service
Last Line: Is come close and touch me.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, but it is dirty!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


GAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things
Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory


GAS STATION, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I own a gas station. It's at the edge of the mojave desert. The only gas
Last Line: To look like a glass of water
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Perseverance


GASOLINE DREAMS, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You move between low riders, the chevies & impalas
Last Line: As they show you the long way home
Subject(s): Dreams; Gasoline


METEOROLOGY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heart is such a big awkward girl
Last Line: Even the best days
Subject(s): Evil; Gasoline; Good; Weather; Windows; Wyoming


MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump
Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives


POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight
Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when
Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!"
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers


SCENT OF GASOLINE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a child I'd inhale deeply the scent of gasoline
Last Line: Before the needle stops traveling backward-falls %unencumbered, empty, lost
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Gasoline; Roads; Travel


SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself
Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind
Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes; Pools; Ponds


STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind
Last Line: Tell me where I can find the bastard who named this lake
Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes


STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten,
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump
Last Line: From some strange thirst
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


WOMAN WITH A FULL TANK, by THOM WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of super unleaded cares little
Last Line: Can't predict her next move
Subject(s): Automobiles; Gasoline; Women