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Subject: AUTOMOBILES - SERVICE STATIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot
Last Line: Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers %of necco wafers, nibs, and juju beads
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports


FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of self service
Last Line: Is come close and touch me.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, but it is dirty!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, but it is dirty!
Last Line: Somebody loves us all
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations


GAS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That year, my mother was dying. And other things
Last Line: Behind you say it's time to step on it buddy and go
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Memory


GAS STATION, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I own a gas station. It's at the edge of the mojave desert. The only gas
Last Line: To look like a glass of water
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline; Perseverance


JUNKYARD, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I built this junkyard
Last Line: After a light rain
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Junk And Junkyards


MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump
Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives


POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight
Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when
Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!"
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers


SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself
Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself
Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations


STILL WEARING A SIZEABLE HANGOVER AT DUSK I FIND MYSELF AT A MARATHON, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stop for gas a fresh mountain dew
Last Line: Of old overholt and challenge me - as I search %the cracked mirror of his face - to take the first d
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Automobiles - Service Stations


STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten,
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump
Last Line: From some strange thirst
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


TURNED BACK, by GILLIAN CONOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So hot at the filling station
Last Line: Someone bringing the sunglasses back down
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations