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Subject: VEGETARIANS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BECOMING VEGETARIAN, by RUTH STONE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly I am pulling my teeth
Last Line: I push my cart of rags crying, “no carrion”
Subject(s): Vegetarians


BESTIARY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did he learn this on barefoot walks through wet fields
Last Line: And petulant of her creatures
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Vegetarians; Zoos


EATING BAMBOO SHOOTS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This province is truly a land of bamboo
Last Line: Eat while you can, don't hestitate, %soon south winds will blow them into bamboo
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Food And Eating; Vegetarians


LINES; WRITTEN AFTER READING SALT'S 'THE LOGIC OF VEGETARIANISM', by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No doubt I am a fool to eat
Last Line: I like the change in diet well.
Subject(s): Cabbage; Salt, Henry S. (1851-1939); Vegetarians


LOGICAL VEGETARIAN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You will find me drinking rum
Last Line: For they are so very, very, %so very, very, very, vegetarian
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Vegetarians


MY VENUS FLY TRAP IS DYING, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because it frightens me
Last Line: Trying so hard to be a tree %can't bear it
Subject(s): Plants; Vegetarians


SUNDAY DINNER, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year we became vegetarians, we fixed meat only for the cats
Last Line: Over the corpses and into the water
Subject(s): Vegetables; Vegetarians


TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 17, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The vegetarian poet who
Last Line: I hope his poetry has %more juice.'
Subject(s): Vegetarians


VEGETARIAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To 'forswear things of the flesh' I thought meant
Last Line: Carnivorous in compassion, my brother ate my portion
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Vegetarians