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Subject: HITCHHIKERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to being his own listener
Last Line: He travels this road.
Subject(s): Conversation; Hitchhikers; Solitude; Loneliness


FOUR POEMS FOR A CHILD SON / DECEMBER 18, 1972: IT WAS THE THIRD DAY, JULY 12 , 1971, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hitchhiking on the way to colorado
Last Line: Look, the stones with voices
Subject(s): Native Americans; Hitchhikers; Fathers & Sons


HITCHHIKER, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When farmers in fords
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


HITCHHIKER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a young man in the next
Last Line: Not to be hitching again for a while
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


HITCHHIKER, by JACK MARSHALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each man to his forced march; this is mine
Last Line: I feel the moon's hub unhinge from center %and roll beserk
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


HITCHHIKER, by MELISSA A. STEPHENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred miles either way
Last Line: That grows unreasonably %from a wild cliff of rock
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


HITCHHIKERS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard times brought them out early
Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Misfortune


HITCHHIKERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They burn you
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


HITCHHIKING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake: / the white hand of
Last Line: By a miraculous hatred.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Fire; Hitchhikers; Tragedy


HITCHING A RIDE WITH GOLD MINERS IN THE YUKON, by ALISON APOTHEKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In dark fog this cariboo highway
Last Line: Of something, %I riffle like thin water over rock
Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners; Hitchhikers; Yukon Territory


LESSON, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go out to the bars
Last Line: Says you almost %got us killed. Then slaps me, hard
Subject(s): Danger; Fear; Hitchhikers; Learning


PARTCH STATIONS: 7. HE WANDERETH AS A HOBO, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Getting a ride in california: could take days
Last Line: He hones his theories, he dreams his new works, %unhindered. And moves along
Subject(s): California; Hitchhikers


POETS HITCHHIKING ON THE HIGHWAY, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course I tried to tell him
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Poetry & Poets


POETS HITCHHIKING ON THE HIGHWAY, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course I tried to tell him
Last Line: We ended by melting away, %hating the air
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Poetry And Poets


ROMANCE, by REBECCA WOLFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes even now I get this feeling
Subject(s): Hitchhikers; Loneliness; Language; Words; Vocabulary


THE HITCHHIKERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They burn you
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


THREE SONGS: HITCHING INTO FRISCO, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truck put me off on fell
Last Line: And everywhere to go
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Hitchhikers; San Francisco


THUMBING A RIDE, by K. L. PENDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot ride in the city streets
Last Line: To thumb me for a ride!
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


TO A LONE HITCHHIKER OF THE 1950S, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a piece of work you were
Last Line: She'll change your inner weather, %even make you learn to drive
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


TO A PICKPOCKET HITCHIKER, by PHILIP GARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The carburetor went out in zacatecas
Subject(s): Hitchhikers


UNNATURAL ACTS, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere along the line
Last Line: Style, style, style
Subject(s): Dreams; Hitchhikers; Hotels; Nature; Travel


WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin
Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel