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Subject: FETISHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AINT NOBODY'S BIDNESS IF I DO?, by HATTIE GOSSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are all human beings equally endowed with an inalienable
Last Line: Rights in bed with someone else what are your rights?
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


BLACK MADONNA, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Screaming legions/her children chase her down shame
Last Line: Father, the crucifixion did not take
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


BOYS GAME-SHE ASKED FOR IT, by HATTIE GOSSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boys have this game they play called she asked for it
Last Line: One man. Especially if he is white. Right?
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


CANADA, by PAT CALIFIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's another country, %she said in her letter
Last Line: Where I do not belong %I belong with you
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


DEATH 213, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This time only one body on the divan
Last Line: And this time, no savior
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


DREAMS IN BONDAGE, by MICHAEL LASSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dreams are slung in hammocks %like refugees
Last Line: Sowing dream seeds %sweetened by tears
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-ONE, by DAVID TRINIDAD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He said his name was nick; later I learned
Last Line: On the screen, then up at the black ceiling
Subject(s): Fetishes; Homosexuality; Obsessions


FETISH, by PAULA TATARUNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I. Analytically (after otto fenichel) %it doesn't take much. Most classically
Last Line: She thinks, 'goddess, it must rankle'
Subject(s): Fetishes; Reproductive System; Sex


FIERCELY FREE 40S, by HATTIE GOSSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years she had been planning that when she reached
Last Line: Of sex and sexual freedom-was lifted from her eyes
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


GONE, by PAT CALIFIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I called you one night
Last Line: I'd so much rather %you had a dog
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


HEAVY BREATHING, by ESSEX HEMPHILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the end of heavy breathing, %very little of my focus intentional
Last Line: Pictures of bushes, %canisters of tears
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


HEROIN, by PAT CALIFIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You say, %tie yourself off
Last Line: Smiles and continues to bask %in this tropical poisonous sun
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


HOMELESS/DOES ECONOMICS TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER SEXUALITY?, by HATTIE GOSSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do homeless people have sex?
Last Line: Have time to think about getting a little bit? %are you sure?
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


WE REALLY SHOULD STOP THIS, YOU KNOW, by PAT CALIFIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not so much fun
Last Line: I bet it was what you wanted %all along
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


WELFARE CLIENTS, by HATTIE GOSSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is it true that welfare clients lay around all day and watch
Last Line: Fuck fuck fuck all day long?
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


WHAT I KNOW OF MY MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How his head turns when desire enters his mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


WHAT I KNOW OF MY MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How his head turns when desire enters his mind
Last Line: Friction exacerbates his final exquisite suffusion %baby baby
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions


WHY I DON'T WRITE LOVE POEMS FOR YOU, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evahbody wanna do da horizontal bop'
Last Line: To ward off this possession %of me by you
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Fetishes; Obsessions