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Subject: DISABILITY
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CALL, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man opens a magazine
Last Line: And they both %listen to it
Subject(s): Disability; Sex; Telephones


EXTENDED CARE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Katherine wears her hat
Subject(s): Disease; Illness; Disability


MARIE LAURENT PASTEUR WATCHES LOUIS WALK TO THE KENNELS AFTER HIS ..., by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I wished his brain would remain unhitched
Last Line: Flame the syringes %and tend to his rabid dogs
Subject(s): Disability


MONGOLIAN IDIOT, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dog that spoke, a monster born of sheep
Subject(s): Disability


NO SUMMER AS YET, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And no summer as yet, but it will come with its bright pieces of whatever
Subject(s): Disability; Speech; Body, Human; Oratory; Orators


REMINDER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a man in the bar tonight
Last Line: That, at least, I could erase
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Disability; Paralysis; Sex