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Subject: TV
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIRST ON TV (FOR WALTER CRONKITE), by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the twentieth century / you are there
Subject(s): Apathy; Cronkite, Walter (b. 1916); Men; Television; Tv


GOODNIGHT, GRACIE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Home very late from a hollywood party, george and gracie
Last Line: Of the author.
Subject(s): Acting And Actors; Actors & Actresses; Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Television; Tv


IN THE FUGITIVE, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting
Last Line: Oddly resembles low german
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Innocence; Television; Tv


JEOPARDY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I phoned
Subject(s): Television; Mothers; Aging; Tv


LESSONS FROM TELEVISION (SELECTION), by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You must laugh at yourself, laugh and laugh.
Subject(s): Television; Social Commentaries; Tv


LET THREE DAYS PASS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the one released from feeling
Last Line: Showering every two hours and scrubbing their hair.
Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island; Tv


LISTENING TO A BROKEN RADIO, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night is / a black diamond
Last Line: Broken radio.
Subject(s): Poverty; Radio; Television; Tv


PLATO'S CAVE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blood is red. They say napalm
Last Line: In the fire a day before my eyes.
Subject(s): Television; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Tv


SCREENING, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A society intent on living in the present tense
Last Line: Of moonlessness overlooking a sea?
Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Television; Tv


THE PARTY TURNS FIFTY, by TONY TRIGILIO    Poem Text                    
First Line: One room
Subject(s): Television; Tv


THE PRICE IS RIGHT: A TORTURE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The show did not start off
Subject(s): Television; Tv


THERE'S A BUTTON ON THE REMOTE CONTROL CALLED FAV, by CLAUDIA RANKINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Television; Aging; Transience; Tv; Impermanence


TV: 1, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For he is ishi the last of his tribe'
Last Line: Is yours and mine and it is late
Subject(s): Television; Tv


TV: 2, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Funny / nazis!
Last Line: More funny nazis!
Subject(s): Nazis; Television; National Socialism; Tv


VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am flown to your good side now
Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv


WATCHING TELEVISION, by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sounds are heard too high for ears
Subject(s): Television; Tv