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Subject: HUMAN ABNORMALITIES
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE DEFORMED WOMAN IS MADE CORRECT, by ROBERT LIETZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their pink mouths opened wide
Last Line: I will pardon them %my mars
Subject(s): Human Abnormalities


AMAZING GRACE, by LAURA ROSENTHAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emaciated chidlike & deformed
Subject(s): Human Abnormalities


COMPLICATIONS AT BIRTH, by BARRY BALLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was as timid as a blue heron's
Last Line: Afraid to be there in the smear of open sky
Subject(s): Children; Girls; Human Abnormalities


DEFORMED FACE, by BELA BODOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Taken from the wall
Last Line: Splitting the grass tilts like a warped board
Subject(s): Human Abnormalities


DUALITY; FROM ME SPRING GOOD AND EVIL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Who gave thee such a ruby flaming heart
Last Line: O'erthrown but in the unconflicting spheres.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Character; Evil; Good; Human Abnormalities; Pain; Peace; Deformities; Suffering; Misery


PRETTY, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: When charlene, my homely friend
Last Line: Gathered up enough courage %to meet me
Subject(s): Accidents; Beauty; Facades; Human Abnormalities; Survival


SIGNIFICANT OTHER, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1811, in siam
Last Line: In the bed beside him, %died of fright
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Human Abnormalities; Twins


THE LAME, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dragging the foot to the water's edge
Last Line: All the whole and newly healed leave the river lame.
Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Human Abnormalities; Cures; Deformities


TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tuesday's bus I heard the man from state
Last Line: It made me sick, if you must know.
Subject(s): Buses; Conversation; Disdain; Human Abnormalities; Violence; Scorn; Deformities