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Subject: SHOVELS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` L'ENVOI-TO MY PICK AND SHOVEL, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the last, long shift will be laboured, and the
Last Line: When the last long shift will be laboured and the lying time will be burst.
Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Shovels; Dead, The; Work; Workers


ODE TO THE SHOVEL, by PEGGY SHUMAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When your one tooth bites / cold earth, turns it round-faced
Subject(s): Shovels


SHOVEL PEOPLE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happened by accident: I was in the middle
Last Line: And I dreamed about how life would be, could be, with %the s
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Labor And Laborers; Shovels


THE STEAM SHOVEL, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voracious monster of the road and pit
Last Line: More logic than some vague platonian law.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M.
Subject(s): Progress; Steam Shovels


TROWEL, SPADE, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the plot you denied me
Last Line: In their gradual erosion
Subject(s): Shovels