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Subject: SADISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANDREW ROSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "andrew rose, the british sailor"
Last Line: Like they did young andrew rose
Subject(s): Sadism;sailing & Sailors


AVARICE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At six she chewed off
Last Line: She counts eight engagement rings %at least twelve times each day
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Evil; Greed; Sadism


BOY AT THE PATERSON FALLS, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am thinking of that boy who bragged about the day he threw
Last Line: Would walk into the soft hands of a killer for a crumb of bread
Subject(s): Sadism


BOY AT THE PATERSON FALLS, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am thinking of that boy who bragged about the day he threw
Last Line: Would walk into the soft hands of a killer for a crumb of %bread
Subject(s): Sadism


GREAT UNRESTRAINED SADIST, by HANS ARP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before his immense window high as a cathedral window
Last Line: Billions of little children - into orange marmalade
Subject(s): Dadaism; Sadism


WATERLOO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overlooking the battlefield, on that grassy
Last Line: At him. Perhaps he wasn't there. But he was.
Subject(s): Sadism; Social Protest; War; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo