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Subject: SELF-HATE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DARK DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not of this family, I know now
Last Line: Mother, I'm already gone
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insanity; Love - Loss Of; Mothers And Daughters; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate; Suicide


EPITAPH, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jerk, loser, fuck up
Last Line: And fell in a lake of shit
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Self-hate


HONEY HALF, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You pass by those who would hold you up
Last Line: You want no part of this world
Subject(s): Girls; Love - Loss Of; Psychoanalysis; Self-hate


JIGOKU: ON THE GLAMOUR OF SELF-HATE, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have always wanted to go it alone
Subject(s): Self-hate


SELF-HATE, by UNKNOWN+123    Poem Source                    
First Line: What I cannot bear %is knowing that I wanted you-
Last Line: I live %the intolerable misery %of hating not only you %but me
Subject(s): Incest; Self-hate


SELF-HATRED OF DON L. LEE, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I %began
Last Line: Brown %outer
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L.
Subject(s): African Americans; Self-hate


SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood inside myself
Last Line: And the rain came.
Subject(s): Introspection; Self-hate; Self-pity


TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness


TWILIGHT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm the crazy girl you've been looking for. I'm the one on the phone that
Last Line: Think I was a princess because my blood was blue. See?
Subject(s): Insanity; Self-criticism; Self-hate


WAR OF POVERTY, by JONAS L. GOLDSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I fight the war of poverty
Last Line: Of self hate %and blind pity
Subject(s): Self-hate


WINDOWS (VERSION A), by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Disgusted with the dreary hospital, and the rank fumes
Last Line: -even at the risk of falling in eternity?
Subject(s): Self-hate