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Subject: GASOLINE STATIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the days of self service
Last Line: Is come close and touch me.
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, but it is dirty!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump
Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives


POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight
Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!!
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when
Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!"
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers


SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself
Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten,
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops


TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump
Last Line: From some strange thirst
Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops