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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER MY TENTH DEATH POEM IN A ROW, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tell myself that I've got to stop this, get out
Last Line: That I might kill in some green place sometime if I want to
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


ALMOST, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I forget %that I'm a stepmother
Last Line: Looks exactly like his father
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


AMBERGRIS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caught in the cobblestones, her heel
Last Line: And the great barrier reef --%knocked, bone on bone
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


BACKFLIP, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are the beautifully wind-deformed pine trees
Last Line: Some days, he says, he'll go through half a case by noon
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


BEFORE OUR DIVORCES, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my sister was tending bar weekends
Last Line: And a dadgum freaking pair of heels %that she maybe could borrow
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


BELLES LETTRES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She had learned %to sip tea from a glass
Last Line: They'd called it a 'vestibule,' %which made her love words
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A full-bore black-out alcoholic
Last Line: It's the good lord shining %it's the blessed gospel light
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


BOOMERS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the last fallout shelter poem
Last Line: Clinging to half-lives, as we are now
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


BUNNY ARKANSAS DAYS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to write about bob etta
Last Line: My husband wants some other family member to own a pickup truck
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


CANA, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk the dog beside the sound
Last Line: Just as the harbor waters turn to wine
Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


CARROTS IN THE RAIN, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm in the driver's seat
Last Line: And asks if I'm gonna write a poem about this
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


CAUTION HORSES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hang their heads over the fence
Last Line: Sweep the ground %at their feet
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


CHERRY-RIPE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here you are again, on that shaky ladder in the south
Last Line: Chose one more night without love and left me barren
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


COME TO PAPA, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting in a rusty-armed lawn chair
Last Line: You have shit running down one drawer-leg %doesn't mean it's running down the other
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


COMPOSING ON THE COMPUTER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've learned to love the clicking of the keyboard --
Last Line: Background noise now for every poem
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


CORNS AND BUNIONS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Certainly, bunions are painful, hard
Last Line: But she did have corns
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can there be passion in a house
Last Line: One calls out into the fields %the other comes
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


CRAZY 'BOUT A MERCURY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you know, my sister says, I talk to god
Last Line: Not just for what I think I want, like sex
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


CRUISING THE SLAMMER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am talking low self-esteem, this pretty woman says
Last Line: She actually wrote them letters
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DAY I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR AND SAW NOTHING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was late afternoon. Ninety-plus degrees in dillard, oregon
Last Line: And check to see if maybe %I'd grow a little bit
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DEAR DAD, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I was there with you
Last Line: With the radio, cruising through camas valley %hanging a right at brockway store
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DEATH'S DETAILS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She irons her mother's dress for the open casket
Last Line: Into the shape of the neat collar she'll wear into the ground
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


DECEMBER MORNING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drinking chase & sanborn %form unmatched cups
Last Line: And clink them together across the table %little fingers held high
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DECEMBER SUNDAY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two of my sisters and I decide to skip bible study
Last Line: To unscrew the ugly things, get them down %without tearing them up
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DIVORCE POEM, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You got the house %with double car garage
Last Line: I got both our boys
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT ALGEBRA, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All through grade school %I thought if I was really smart
Last Line: Where the toilet never flushed and the place always smelled like salem cigarettes
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


DOWN ON MY KNEES, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cleaning out my refrigerator
Last Line: And happy enough under a warm and unexpected january sun
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


EARLY SPRING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've all been devastated
Last Line: Today she handed me s just-picked bouquet of daffodils %said he got them in the neighbor's yard
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


EPITHALAMION, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The carpenters came %who invited
Last Line: That stirred her %and a black wing
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


EVIDENTLY, SHE SAYS,, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's looking for a man physically
Last Line: For a sick man. %the sicker, the better
Variant Title(s): Evidently, She Say
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


FIRST HAIR CUT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The barber's rough bristles brushed
Last Line: The fluorescent light licked %my bare neck to stone
Subject(s): Barbers; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FIRST LOVE, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In sixth grade %there was a boy I liked
Last Line: There's nothing more to tell
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


FIRST NIGHT OF FIREFLIES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It would be this way: twilight
Last Line: With a grass nest, a punctured lid %he was coming over
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FLESH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your newborn neck recalls the potter's fragrant spit
Last Line: Just as mad and milky dim as when we buried them
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poems pressed into your palm with your fare receipt
Last Line: Poems clipped and filed with family recipes
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 2, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poems (the smell of mothballs, of cedar) pinned to wirehangers
Last Line: Was like to feel the garment from inside
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FLU SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: We keep passing the fever between us, a monster's
Last Line: While you are spiking, soaked in your own sweat
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FONTANELLE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soul keeps pouring in before it closes
Last Line: More gently here on top, %before the small skull shuts
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


FRIDAY NIGHT, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My oldest son called
Last Line: I guess I'd go get drunk
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


GIFT, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The preacher's sermon is on the parable of the talents
Last Line: My sister says she knows what her one talent is %encouraging others
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


GOD COMES IN HANDY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you're recently divorced
Last Line: You drop the shit and flush
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


GOING DOWN, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm scrubbing my back bathroom toilet
Last Line: And the ship is going down
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


GOOD NEWS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've got to write a letter, card or something, anything
Last Line: And give her a couple of turbans for free
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


GROWING OLD NEAR CHARLESTON, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm still a fossil point kid
Last Line: And blue beach glass %finding only broken pieces
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


HABITUAL OFFENDER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My oldest sister sits
Last Line: For his old man to just once tell him that he loves him
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


HERE'S A CHRISTMAS CARD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: With the blank look of abbot thayer's angel
Last Line: And not in the bright throbbing of the stars
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


HOME ALONE, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cigarette smokers
Last Line: After another, eating candy, flicking %my ashes on the floor
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


HOUSEWIFE, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sits on her carefully made bed
Last Line: She'll burn the hell out of dinner
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


I PUNCH OUT JESUS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peter, andrew, james, john
Last Line: That part about no pain, no tears
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


I TELL THEM I'M A BIBLE SCHOOL TEACHER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tell my old friends that I'm a housewife/homemaker
Last Line: And I say I'm crazy %not to tell them that
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


I TRY NOT TO WRITE POEMS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: About my dead sister's daughter's blocked fallopian tubes
Last Line: Where I could write poetry all day long
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


IF HE'S LUCKY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When his lower back goes out
Last Line: His feet up %his eyes closed
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


LEDA'S CHILDREN, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The swan honking of the woman
Last Line: Shit she leaves behind, only to %step, once more, in my own
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


LES ONCLES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow on the roof but fire in the cellar'
Last Line: I had learned enough of that language to ask %'but didn't you use the familiar?'
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


LITERALLY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abortion was merely a metaphor
Last Line: I am now trying my best to ignore
Subject(s): Abortion; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


LOLLAPALOSER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So your second marriage is not sad
Last Line: About your being the milkman's daughter
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


LOT'S WIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last time we cast shadows %on the wall
Last Line: And god, his mouth, his wet mouth, %always the taste of
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


LOVE POEM FOR MY BROTHER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were so cool %so handsome in a white t-shirt
Last Line: She lied. I'm sorry you were up there when momma died
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


MAN FOR MARY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One who wouldn't dream of insisting
Last Line: Mary loves house plants, lots of windows, lots of light
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


MAN WHO TOUCHED THE TWELVE-ARMED GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am clever,' says the man. 'the guards
Last Line: Curving ram's horns, necklace of claws, tiger teeth
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


MENOPAUSE, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed I had an alligator belly
Last Line: To help me cut off this huge, bloody growth %hanging out of my crotch
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


MIDWIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fingers a pelvis model %thrust on a stick like sculpture
Last Line: Clatters his trucks, like anybody's son
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


MIKEY LIKES IT, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way I wait on him
Last Line: Mikey will give you our key
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


MILK COW BLUES, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never once saw dad kiss momma
Last Line: It had to be %some kind of love
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


MY FATHER'S CORNET, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The parched leather case, flecked in the corners
Last Line: To. We never learned much more
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


MY PARENTS BUY A BURIAL PLOT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It took her fifteen years to get him
Last Line: I'll be in hell if she's been right all along
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


MY SISTER BELIEVES IN MIRACLES, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The latest of which %is a short, bald, fifty-year-old italian
Last Line: He believes in jesus
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


MY SISTER CALLS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To say she's lost weight
Last Line: And I tell her I'm writing %just as fast as I can
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


NECESSITY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You need to live %near the edge of the world
Last Line: You need to live on the edge of the world %and, oh, how you need jesus
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


NO CODE; A PREARRANGED AGREEMENT FOR NO LIFE SUPPORT, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm thankful that my brother wasn't drunk
Last Line: With my sister over coffee while they waited
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


NOT SLEEPING TOO GOOD MYSELF, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister slips up and lets out
Last Line: Her caseworker to come to church some sunday
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


NOVEMBER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder
Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums?
Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


NUNS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When our nun drove the idiot's head into the blackboard
Last Line: Not even from thirst, or from hunger
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Nuns; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


NUTCRACKER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not to be confused with the little wooden priapus
Last Line: Secretly. I clicked her empty legs like castanets
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


O MOMMA, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come from a real life %soap opera family
Last Line: But we're perceptive that way %we know hurt
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


O THAT SUMMER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister and I
Last Line: To slice our foot on beach glass
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


OLD BAWLING HAGS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lonely, horny, divorced
Last Line: We split a moon pie and cry
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


ON CERTAIN SUNNY SUNDAYS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the way to k-mart
Last Line: On certain sunny sundays
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


PARISH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The priests, the priests %in their loneliness imagined our lives
Last Line: The men you imagine yourselves to be
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


PLACE PREPARED, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's such a sad world
Last Line: Stepping into that place %he's promised to prepare
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


POMEGRANATE SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: First frost-the sugar-shocked leaves
Last Line: Darkness-god, I'd barter my soul for these
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


PRAYER, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: God bless the chick in alaska
Last Line: And bless the fat chick in alaska
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


PRE-HOLIDAY PMS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't want to be thankful this year
Last Line: Your charge cards %and all your cash
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


READING JAMES WRIGHT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I go down all the way with you
Last Line: Lank and rambling? She never %threw herself into the sea
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States; Wright, James (1927-1980)


RECLASSIFIED, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ww ii took just about any man
Last Line: And where some folks called him %a 4-f son of a bitch
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


ROLLS-ROYCE DREAMS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Using salal leaves for money
Last Line: Headlights missing, and gas gauge on empty
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back
Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


SADDER THAN A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With money %a good man
Last Line: Wouldn't want to preach %her a sermon or anything
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


SISTER RITUAL, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every morning I
Last Line: Call tana rae long distance. If she's busy I eat breakfast
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


SLEEPING WITH DAD, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in the seventh grade
Last Line: That smell I'd never before liked, that touch %I'd always wanted
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


SMOKING AND DRINKING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dad warns me
Last Line: They've tried to kill me. Look how they killed your mother
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


SOMETIMES A CLEANING LADY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gets to feeling sorry for herself, her reflection these days
Last Line: Sweetheart, make yourself at home
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


SPLITTING WOOD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's best when you take off your shirt
Last Line: Winter, this will burn between us
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


STUFF, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was thinking it was just me with my
Last Line: I'm a poet, that I'll write this stuff down?
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your face is like an angel's %I've kissed it
Last Line: Mundane as a supermarket, %it's my life too
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 6, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish you could have heard ginsberg
Last Line: But cover the fire, boy, %cover the fire
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


THANKSGIVING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the almost perfectly fluted edge
Last Line: Your door to strangers, entertaining all possible angels
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


THIS POEM, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some minor family crisis last night
Last Line: Or the way my legs are crossed, my toes turning blue
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


TIME AND MONEY, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monday. March 10th. Exactly
Last Line: The sooner it all falls out the better %same with my teeth
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


TO BECOME AN ISLANDER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steal a sloop from the harbor
Last Line: Burn your face brown before sunset
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


TO SEDNA, THE INUIT SEA GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the storm when your father flung
Last Line: Has brought your father, and all his work, down
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


TO THE CLOSE FRIEND MOST UNLIKE ME, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday I thought of you--
Last Line: The little boy under the wheel of that car, for instance--alive
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


WARNING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sister tells me that people see it
Last Line: That waist, that butt %and those eyes
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


WAY PAST DANCING, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It doesn't bother him that he can't get it up anymore
Last Line: How he's fixed them good as new with crazy glue
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


WEEK'S END, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet to rest serenely in the gloaming
Last Line: Heaps of mon.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pride; Wages; Working Class - United States; Work; Workers; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Salaries


WHAT THE CLEANING LADY KNOWS, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cleanliness is not and never has been next to godliness
Last Line: Cash is better than checks
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


WILD GIRLS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild girls are all around us %and the memory of snow
Last Line: Wild girls are dancing %bears groan in the forest
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


WINTER SOLSTICE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our new pup backs into her plastic den
Last Line: As she leapt straight for him into the sun
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


WITH A WICKED LITTLE JAB, by GINGER ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stop/eject the golden oldies cassette
Last Line: He wants to die at home %and he wants us there when it happens
Subject(s): Working Class - United States


WOMEN AND MEN: A RETROSPECTIVE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know they exist, I saw them --
Last Line: Bearing burdens on their backs, %walking uphill, fully clothed
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


WORKING CLASS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: How often in my presence someone's used
Last Line: And he was. And they were. And we have been
Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States


WORKING CLASS HAIKU, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scorpion shadow %of the backhoe falls
Last Line: Hurry it up, man!'
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Working Class - United States