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Subject: HIPS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HIP BONES, by KATE YOUTHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dry dishes whenever my father washes. Today he stops to look at
Last Line: One leg at a time - just like the next man
Subject(s): Children; Hips; Physical Disabilities; Virginity


HIPS, by ABU HAFS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her hips, so wide-distended
Last Line: When she attempts to rise.
Subject(s): Hips


HIPS, by JAKI SHELTON GREEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hips, hips, hips w/bracelets of alligator teeth
Last Line: W/silk %w/honey %w/cosmic nectar %w/virgin sweat
Subject(s): Hips


HOMAGE TO MY HIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: These hips are big hips
Subject(s): Hips; Women


HOMAGE TO MY HIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These hips are big hips
Last Line: To put a spell on a man and %spin him like a top!
Subject(s): Hips; Women


WOMAN ON THE DANCE, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman the woman the woman on the dance
Last Line: Nothing to sustain %them nothing
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Hips; Women