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Subject: JOB HUNTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CASTING CALL, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow in the blood. My lover's coo
Last Line: Unable to remember my name %on hiatus
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Job Hunting


CASTING CALL (2), by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow in the blood. My lover's coo
Last Line: Peg me in the hole of kingfish
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Job Hunting


CITY SQUARE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a diploma
Last Line: Since they don't like diplomas, not anywhere there.
Subject(s): Cities; Education; Job Hunting; Universities & Colleges; Urban Life


JOB HUNTER, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ridin' the newsprint want-ad range
Last Line: And death is an elevator on its way %down to the lobby
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Job Hunting


JOB HUNTING, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it references you want
Last Line: Is my reference, my only one.
Subject(s): Job Hunting; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


ODD JOB ASCENSIONS, by DANIEL M. NESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I began in puddles of soap, the silver track
Last Line: Ball of suds, perfect, brilliant
Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Job Hunting


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 119, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this poor dreamer
Last Line: He doesn't dare to look
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Failure; Job Hunting


WHAT I WOULDN'T DO, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only job I didn't like, quit
Last Line: And had been waiting all day to hear.
Subject(s): Job Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers