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Subject: MACHISMO
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want a woman named earlene
Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


EARLENE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want a woman named earlene
Last Line: The way things are
Subject(s): Machismo; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage


ELEPHANT SEALS ARE JUMPING OFF CLIFFS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since they lug 2000 pounds of soft blubber
Last Line: Heroin tempts me most. Anything to stop the pain
Subject(s): Machismo; Seals (animals)


GUY TALK, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son asks, what does it mean when you're
Subject(s): Machismo; Men; Reproductive System; Sex Organs; Genitalia


GUY TALK, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son asks, what does it mean when you're
Last Line: If just for a moment
Subject(s): Machismo; Men; Reproductive System


MACHISMO CHEMISTRY, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though the apocrine gland sometimes gets out of hand
Last Line: And few will regret the removal from sweat %of that 3-methyl-2-hexanoic
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO, by RITA MAE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lamplites are lit with blood
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slender, you are, secret as rail
Last Line: Remember: the word for machismo is real
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slender, you are, secret as rail
Last Line: Your potent lure links hunger to flesh %as a frail eagle alights on my chest, %remember: the word fo
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO / PSYCHE, by ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first word is dark-eyed, muscled, moves
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The phone rings. / I answer
Last Line: Don’t be a pussy, pep squad. Just come now, he says
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO MAN, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The phone rings. %I answer
Last Line: Leaps upon the %bedcovers
Subject(s): Machismo


MACHO MAN, by PEGGY CARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: You step out of
Last Line: Into your rhapsody %of casual kisses
Subject(s): Machismo