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Subject: COST OF LIVING
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FALL DAYS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the frost is on the pumpkin, mary jane
Last Line: And it's time the weather bureau knew reform.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living


HIGH PRICES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our forebears, whose bright shades are soaring
Last Line: Went speedin', our fierce h. C. Of l.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Money


NOTHING TO SPARE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hungry children cry for bread, and I
Last Line: And gas.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Money; Poverty; Recessions


OUR DESTINATION, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poorhouse has no persian rugs, no
Last Line: Until we climb the stars.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Poverty


PROMPT PAY, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man runs up a little bill, and when it's
Last Line: Reputation, some day that rep will knock you down, and hurt like all creation.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Merchants; Money; Poverty; Wages; Salaries


SUNDAY NIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two grave brown eyes, severely bent
Last Line: And smile again at her accounts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Mothers


THE MONEY GOES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spent a pfennig for a rose, a groschen for
Last Line: "it's blowing coin for useless traps that breaks an old fat poet."
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Economics; Money


THE POOR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot give the poor a cent,' remarks
Last Line: "of these outlandish times."
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Depressions, Economic; Poverty; Recessions


TIMES CHANGE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The other day I bought a hen, which fowl
Last Line: Liver.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers