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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JANITORS Matches Found: 7 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HARD FACTS, by BERENICE C. DEWEY Poem Text First Line: If wishes were horses and promises motors Last Line: And all of us foot it from daylight till dark. Subject(s): Janitors JANITOR, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: Whenever one of us threw up or spilled something Last Line: Picking out the right key without even looking Subject(s): Janitors JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks / where I am from Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics & Government; Latinos JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks %where I am from Last Line: Like a crazy squid %with stringy gray tentacles. %they will call it jorge Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics NIGHT JANITOR, MCMAHON OIL, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one working late tonight Last Line: It's a joke because he's never seen me pray. %yeah, I say. I want to make a joke %but I just say yea Subject(s): Janitors THE JANITOR'S BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy Last Line: "with the janitor's red-haired boy." Subject(s): Escapes; Janitors; Love - Beginnings; Fugitives THE SEXTON AND THE THERMOMETER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A building there is, well known, I conjecture Last Line: "so, if you take the joke, why, I'll take the dollar!" Subject(s): Churches; Janitors; Jokes; Thermometers; Cathedrals |
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