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Subject: JOPLIN, JANIS (1943-1970)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DEATH OF JANIS JOPLIN, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because she was a white girl
Last Line: Part of something at last
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock


ELEGY, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crying from exile, I
Last Line: Alone, you are dead
Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians


ELEGY, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crying from exile, I
Last Line: Alone, you are dead
Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music And Musicians


FANS, by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When janis joplin died
Last Line: We are still listening, but life is like death, %so strong it doesn't have to explain
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock


JANIS JOPLIN, by SILVIA CURBELO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a song like a light
Last Line: Because it must not end, %because it never lasts
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women


MAMA LOVES JANIS JOPLIN, by RICHARD SPEAKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It turns out you can have a daughter selling
Last Line: You find the harmonies, and you sing along
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock


MYSTERY TRAIN: JANIS JOPLIN LEAVES PORT ARTHUR FOR POINTS WEST, 1964, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Train she rides is sixteen coaches long
Subject(s): Blues (music); Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Railroads; Railways; Trains


MYSTERY TRAIN: JANIS JOPLIN LEAVES PORT ARTHUR FOR POINTS WEST, 1964, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Train she rides is sixteen coaches long
Last Line: The mystery train is sixteen coaches long. %the whistle howls, the wheels click along
Subject(s): Blues (music); Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Railroads


PEARL, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas
Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women; Biographers


PEARL, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas
Last Line: In a storm on a blackened stage like a house %on fire
Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women


PENALTY FOR BIGAMY IS TWO WIVES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't understand how janis joplin did it, how she made her voice
Last Line: My arms are easily as my body will hold forever the silence for which the mouth opens slowly
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock


PEOPLE ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joplin's voice, edged like a crack
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock; Rock & Roll


PEOPLE ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joplin's voice, edged like a crack
Last Line: Go higher, the hands go %capo up my neck
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock


SOUTHERN CROSS FOR JANIS JOPLIN, by BARON JAMES ASHANTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trouble ferrying loneliness %through chords stitching devil's music
Last Line: But j.J. Could've been anybody %she wanted %when she sang the blues!
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970)


THE PENALTY FOR BIGAMY IS TWO WIVES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't understand how janis joplin did it, how she made her voice
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music, Rock; Rock & Roll


TOURISTS: 2. JANIS JOPLIN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sits by the jukebox in the powwow tavern
Last Line: Sings along off key
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970)


TOURISTS: 2. JANIS JOPLIN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sits by the jukebox in the powwow tavern
Last Line: And sings along off key
Subject(s): Joplin, Janis (1943-1970)


YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover
Last Line: "“it’s your shade, this blood dress,” we say. “it’s you."
Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians


YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover
Last Line: It's your shade, this blood dress,' we say. 'it's you.'
Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music And Musicians