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Subject: TOOLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BONE, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An erratic, complicated shape, like a tool for some obsolete task:
Last Line: Maman, please... % it's filthy. Drop it. Drop it! Drop it! Drop it!
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Bones; Tools


CARRYING MY TOOLS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Any good craftsman carries his tools
Last Line: So there may not be any work today, %but when there is, I'll be ready. %I got my tools
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Politics; Tools


DIALECTICAL INSTRUMENTS, by FERENC RAKOCZY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How does one give a meaning to tears, to sentences
Last Line: Of an engine which backfires, then moves away, jogging along
Subject(s): Tools


HAMMER, by J. MACEKURA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hammer called the conference today
Last Line: A prophet's new disciple will rise with the dawn
Subject(s): Politics; Tools


HAMMER, by CONNIE WANEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is an instrument as blunt
Last Line: A thumbnail? We'll know in a moment
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nailshops; Tools


I IS FOR IMPLEMENTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What lovely dark blue flames, o spade
Last Line: Shall cover thee with glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Tools


IRON FEVER: MONKEY WRENCH LULLABY, by STEPHAN TORRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my back in the dark %stroking the rear end
Last Line: Getting laid on my back %with wrenches in my fists
Subject(s): Sex; Tools


KEEPING THINGS NEAT, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You plant a rosebush by your door, and
Last Line: Hide.
Subject(s): Admiration; Cleanliness; Gardens & Gardening; Housekeeping; Neighbors; Tools


MAKING GOOD, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought an ax of ezra wax, who said to
Last Line: Promise under, so I make tracks to ezra wax for every kind of plunder.
Subject(s): Axes; Lumber And Lumbering; Tools; Hatchets


PROSPERO QUESTIONS CALIBAN, by ERIC HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: #name?
Last Line: I think I put everything back straight
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Tools


PULLMAN, by CAROLYN KOO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her plot at night picks up
Last Line: They bore darkness with gradual ease
Subject(s): Tools


REGARDING CHAINSAWS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first chainsaw I owned was years ago
Last Line: Butter mold. But I’m damned if I know why
Subject(s): Tools


SHORT ANSWER: MISHAP WITH A NAIL GUN, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something about the nail through my hand said jesus. Or was it shit?
Subject(s): Tools; Accidents


SIESTA, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father took me to one side
Subject(s): Fathers; Accidents; Tools


STUMP, by GARY ETTARI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You dig half a grave to get it out
Last Line: Knock dirt from the brown heaven of roots
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Tools; Trees


THE OBJECTION TO BEING STEPPED ON, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the end of the row
Last Line: Turned into a weapon
Subject(s): Accidents; Tools; Wit & Humor


THE SALE OF THE TOOLS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a choice set of tools for you, g'emmen and ladies
Last Line: Is placed by ill luck at the top of the budget!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Tools


THE WORD IS DEED, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John begins like genesis
Last Line: Dance all, for each would dare the tune.)
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Tools; Work; Workers


TOOL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So there was nothing?
Last Line: He said, suffering the tool's %insolence in his own body
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Tools


TOOL BOX FULL OF YOUR TOOLS, by PAUL ONOPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You hand me a snap-on torque
Last Line: That I don't want you to go
Subject(s): Tools


TOOLBOX, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What to make of this wicked
Last Line: I can turn or hammer home
Subject(s): Tools


TOOLS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We found ready to our hands in the beginning
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Tools


TOOLS, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dad's old man was a carpenter
Last Line: And permanent jet black ink
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Fathers; Labor And Laborers; Tools


TOOLS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, how do the manufacturers of tools
Subject(s): Tools


TOOLS: AN ODE, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cheap / screwdriver reams the cheap
Last Line: Not unmagisterial, / chorale
Subject(s): Tools


VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont
Last Line: As dry as our insides.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers


WHEN A HAMMER SINGS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Its head is loose
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Tools


WORK TABLE, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your work table is something more than beautiful
Last Line: So that we may worship and become divine
Subject(s): Tools