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Subject: GROCERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOSS, by HERBERT SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am one of the old line
Last Line: We all got to eat
Subject(s): Grocers


BOSS IN THE BACK ROOM, by HERBERT SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love to work the checkstands saturdays
Last Line: It's a great place to be
Subject(s): Grocers


BOSS'S LAMENT, by HERBERT SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This ain't no business for old men
Last Line: Will take my place. No more you don't %need to know nothing about groceries
Subject(s): Grocers; Old Age


CAREER CASHIER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to live next to this run-down grocery where the motto was: 'cleaner
Last Line: Drawer was open, filled with mums
Subject(s): Grocers; Mourning; Murder; Retail Trade


CORNER GROCERY IN PRESOV, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by SIGMAN BYRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The paint-chipped, mildewed walls, the empty shelves
Last Line: One of those red, delicious berries in my mouth
Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Grocers


COUNTERS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To think I once saw grocery shops
Last Line: Not hemispheres to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): To Think!
Subject(s): Grocers


DELIKAT-ESSEN, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the far right of the superstore
Last Line: Staining their elegant tuxedoes
Subject(s): Grocers; Markets


FREE TURKEY-RALPHS SUPERMARKET, NOVEMBER 16, by HOLLY PRADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is this american, or what?
Last Line: Holidays. Twelve pounds of meat and bone: my just reward
Subject(s): Americans; Grocers; Holidays; Markets; Thanksgiving Day; Turkeys


GROCER AND THE GOLD-FISH, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd asked the grocer
Last Line: Compared with fish, %than a pound of cheddar?
Subject(s): Grocers


MIDNIGHT GROCERY, by JENNIFER SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman in the store calls me sweety and honey, is unassuming
Last Line: It is right and just the body of god is blood and food
Subject(s): Food And Eating; God; Grocers


MILKING THE RASPBERRY COW, by UNKNOWN+12    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each july morning I'm to be found
Last Line: I've never been raspberries more than now!
Subject(s): Business; Fruit; Grocers; Raspberries


MONEY BACK, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your money back if things don't suit'
Last Line: Infant after him.
Subject(s): Advertising; Grocers; Merchants; Money


SEDUCTIVE PRODUCE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine peaches, %the fine hair of their navels
Last Line: Into the under-tofu of your flesh
Subject(s): Grocers; Seduction; Sex; Vegetables


SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MASQUE PERFORMED BY GROCERS' COMPANY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This wilderness si %a place full of bliss
Last Line: We labour all day, yet we frollick at night, %with smoaking and joking, and tricks of delight
Subject(s): Grocers


SIX-MONTH REVIEW, by HERBERT SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You ain't naturally gifted
Last Line: You'll make it all right, and you'll live to forty
Subject(s): Grocers


SONG AGAINST GROCERS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God made the wicked grocer
Last Line: The grocer trembles; for his time, %just like his weight, is short
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Variant Title(s): The Wicked Groce
Subject(s): Grocers


THE POOR LISTENER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit in the grocery store, discoursing of current
Last Line: Other fellows a chance.
Subject(s): Grocers; Labor & Laborers; Public Meetings; Speech; Work; Workers; Oratory; Orators


THE SUGAR-CANE: THE SHAME OF FRANCE, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False gallia's sons, that hoe the ocean isles
Last Line: And, with abhorrence, reprobate the name.
Subject(s): France; Grocers; Plants; Salespersons; Sugar; Planting; Planters; Selling


THE TEA TRADER, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jackson at his counter packing tea
Last Line: In mcconnell's grocery store!
Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Grocers; Tea; Nightmares