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Subject: PERPETUAL MOTION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN IRREGULAR SUPPLICATORY ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMIES, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye learned wights, who all the heights
Last Line: That arcanum -- perpetual motion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lectures; Perpetual Motion; Scholarship & Scholars; Science; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Scientists


BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windblown scream of the siren
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windblown scream of the siren
Last Line: Who says perpetual motion is unattainable
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


EXTRAPOLATION DREAMS: 6. PERPETUAL MOTION, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once upon a time, in the public schools
Last Line: From page to page to page like hammer wheels, %satellites, the extrapolation dreams
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


HOP, SKIP, AND JUMP: A QUEER TRIO PERSONIFIED, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Hop is a sailor used up in the war
Last Line: Those impalpable ideas of hop, skip, and jump!
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion; Play


PERPETUAL MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandfather swore it would work
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With copper pillaged from busted radios
Last Line: I do not know where any of them are now
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


THE GROUND SQUIRREL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless us, and save us! What's here
Last Line: Or in less than no time, how we'd rue it!
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion; Squirrels