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Subject: BALDNESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER IKKYU: 32, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If that bald head gets you closer to buddha
Last Line: Now you've become that lamb you refused to eat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Baldness; Buddhism; Buddha; Buddhists


BALD, by SUSAN HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer's crown thins, the scalp
Last Line: Lust and lone deep circular want %to just return home
Subject(s): Baldness


BALD, by BILL ZAVATSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mirror it's plain to see
Last Line: And even its teeth fall out
Subject(s): Baldness; Hair


BALD, by BILL ZAVATSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mirror it's plain to see
Subject(s): Baldness; Hair


BALD SPOT, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It nods %behind me %as I speak %at the meeting
Last Line: Walking backwards %into my life
Subject(s): Baldness


BALD-HEADED MAN, HIS PATE, by BHARTRIHARI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: There do adversaries follow him
Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari
Subject(s): Adversity; Baldness


DISPROVED, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People tell me I must do
Last Line: Keeps on growing through his hair.
Subject(s): Baldness; Boys; Fathers; Growth


MY BALD HEAD, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good friends, when care assails a man
Last Line: So listen to the wise!
Subject(s): Baldness


ON DIGITAL EXTREMITIES, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd rather have fingers than toes
Last Line: I'll be awfully sad when it goes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Variant Title(s): Goop Rhymes;fingers And Toes
Subject(s): Baldness


PHYLLIS IS BALD, by DANIEL E. SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Smiling back at her, %mysterious and bold
Subject(s): Baldness


SENRYU (66), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The father of the son
Last Line: Has gone quite bald
Subject(s): Baldness


THE BALD TRUTH, by BOB HICOK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hair went on a diet of its own accord
Last Line: That I'm seen by love.
Subject(s): Baldness


THE BALD-HEADED TYRANT, by MARY E. VANDYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O! The quietest home in earth had I
Last Line: This bald-headed tyrant from no-man's-land.
Subject(s): Babies; Baldness; Infants


THE HAIR-TONIC BOTTLE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How dear to my heart is the old village drug
Last Line: "that ""hair-tonic"" bottle that stood on the shelf."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Baldness; Quackery & Quacks


THE LINGERING LOCK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the doleful vacancy
Last Line: And have my hair again!
Subject(s): Baldness