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Subject: EXCREMENT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEAUTIFUL BOWEL MOVEMENT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though most of them aren't much to write about
Last Line: Stardust, how can I keep you? With this poem
Subject(s): Excrement


DETAIL FROM WHAT NO ONE COULD HAVE TOLD THEM, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked in a splash of sun, he pees into a paper plate
Last Line: He pees naked in a splash of sun as she reached for potato chips
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Babies; Excrement


EXCREMENT POEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done by us all, as god disposes, from
Last Line: I honor shit for saying: we go on
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Anxiety; Excrement


GOOD LUCK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birdshit on the window
Last Line: But never get stuck
Subject(s): Birds; Excrement; Luck


LETTERS TO YESENIN: 12, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was proud at four that my father called me little turd of misery
Last Line: And builds a noose. It works too well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Excrement; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925)


PISSING OF THE TOADS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Concerning the venomous urine of toads, conceptions
Last Line: In other parts, as the learned scalinger observed
Subject(s): Excrement; Pentastichs; Toads


SCAT, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The study or preoccupation %with excrement
Last Line: Schematized, %diagrammed %like jazz
Subject(s): Excrement


SHIT & THE DREAM OF IT, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was knee-deep in my dad's polebarn
Last Line: The straightest poop
Subject(s): Excrement


THE BEAUTIFUL BOWEL MOVEMENT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though most of them aren't much to write about
Last Line: Stardust, how can I keep you? With this poem.
Subject(s): Excrement


THE EXCREMENT POEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done by us all, as god disposes, from
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Anxiety; Excrement