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Subject: SURGERY, PLASTIC
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE FACE LIFT, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman who used to be my age
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Variant Title(s): Face-lift
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts


AFTER THE FACE LIFT, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman who used to be my age
Last Line: For a bunch of jonquils, this year's first %yellow, about to open
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Variant Title(s): Face-lif
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


DISTANCE FROM LOVED ONES, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After her husband died, zita decided to get the face-lift she had
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts


DISTANCE FROM LOVED ONES, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After her husband died, zita decided to get the face-lift she had
Last Line: But, mother, I say, I am dying
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


FACE LIFT, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We all want to stare
Last Line: But drop into the path %at his every whim, %full-blown, frozen
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


GLASNEVIN, by GIBBONS RUARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A chance of summer in the liffey air
Last Line: Leads us first to the inventor %of plastic surgery, as well he might, %these days of the gelignite a
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


IT FOLLOWS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had a lot of money
Subject(s): Money; Surgery, Plastic; Life Choices; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts


NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the valley
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste


PLASTIC SURGERY, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Praying for rejuvenation
Last Line: And tomorrow, though delayed, will claim its due
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


PLASTIC SURGERY MADONNA, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gets nipped %tucked and sucked
Last Line: Look like a road %map of new jersey
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


SAME OLD SUE, by RITA MILLET    Poem Source                    
First Line: She finally had a face-lift, did poor aunt sue
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic


TOMATOES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman tavels to brazil for plastic / surgery and a face-lift. She is sitxy
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts


TOMATOES, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman tavels to brazil for plastic %surgery and a face-lift. She is sitxy
Last Line: Starvation, think of his ravenous kisses
Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic