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Subject: PUBLIC HEALTH
Matches Found: 5

CLEAN STREETS, by STAN PROPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Public health and safety
Last Line: Surely were potential %molesters and rapists
Subject(s): Public Health


DEAD LEAVES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fallen leaves were lying thick upon the
Last Line: Be all wrong.
Subject(s): Dirt; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Leaves; Nature; Public Health


PARLOR IS PUBLIC, by EMOKE PULAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the old woman comes in
Last Line: And blacken your tastebuds
Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Public Health


WHOSE CHILDREN, by EDWARD HUNTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was to the city of glasgow you came
Last Line: Convener of the red clyde public health writes this of you, %my children
Subject(s): Children; Glasgow, Scotland; Public Health


YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks
Last Line: They dance the dance they dance
Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats