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Subject: KAFKA, FRANZ (1883-1924)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEFORE AND AFTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It'll take a while they say
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Mountain Climbing; Valleys


BEFORE AND AFTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It'll take a while they say
Last Line: But it wouldn't do any good now
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Mountain Climbing; Valleys


CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by DAVE ETTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Franz kafka was
Last Line: Famous spot for %tourists, and a %pen meeting was %held there one time
Subject(s): Czechoslovakia; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


DERVICE / LE ROBERT: THE LETTER K, by BERNARD HEIDSIECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: But! -- what was his name...? Anyway
Last Line: No comment!
Subject(s): K (letter Of Alphabet); Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


DIALOGUE; FROM KAFKA'S NOTEBOOKS, by FATTHY SAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wandering all alone in the night
Last Line: Before the 'director' issues a permit
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Muslims


DYING OF FRANZ KAFKA AT THE KIERLING SANATORIUM, by JOSEF HANZLIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laughter sun silence
Last Line: That was his dying %how good it was here with you %despite everything and our thanks
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


FRANZ KAFKA, by HANS JUERGENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I claw into myself
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


FRANZ KAFKA APPLIES FOR A LITERARY FELLOWSHIP, by DABNEY STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: My plans are uncertain
Last Line: My happiness does not depend %on the success of this application. %therefore, it is incomplete
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


FRANZ KAFKA T-SHIRT, by MARK CRAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the funniest thing
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


JUDGES OF THE SECRET COURT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Assembled in their awful chamber
Last Line: And finds his happy oklahoma
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Oklahoma


KAFKA, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever has, even once, glimpsed
Last Line: Cannot be content with anything / less
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever has, even once, glimpsed
Last Line: That was once too strong for your eyes, %you knew that they didn't matter. %they didn't matter in th
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA DEBUGS MY LIFE, by MICHELLE RHEA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never been able
Last Line: Turned upside-down %and forgotten
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA IN HIS SMALL ROOM ON THE STREET OF THE ALCHEMISTS,..., by WILLIS BARNSTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One winter kafka rented a white room
Last Line: He drank white ink and hungered where he stood
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA IN OHIO, OR THESE SUNNY TUESDAYS, by JEFF GUNDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shorts already, records falling
Last Line: When the father comes their feathers will blow %free, no matter what they do. And they know
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA IN PRAGUE, by JAMES SCHEVILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great river in my city flowed through
Last Line: Of brilliant architecture in my mind
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Prague, Czech Republic


KAFKA POEM, by LISA ZEIDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dusk or dawn, maybe a bridge
Last Line: I can smell the lush green of a distant island: %we are drinking from a spring
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA THE SPIDER, by JOAN JOBE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tract home was designed in the
Last Line: To give you free money when you can't %even balance your bank balance of %ninety-nine bucks
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA'S AMERICA, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I once have sometime conquered
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA'S ANGELS, by L. S. ASEKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once more we must learn to accept
Last Line: Talking in colors to crows, & faith, %the black rainbow, outstretched in darkness
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA'S ERECTION, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest l, my lovely older sister / I suggest to you what to say
Last Line: I mean to wear them as dresses
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA'S ERECTION, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest l, my lovely older sister %I suggest to you what to say
Last Line: Purchased at thrift shops %I mean to wear them as dresses
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAFKA'S GRAVE, by PETER PEREIRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curled on my lap like a cat
Last Line: As if among the yard of markers %only he had living progeny
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Medicine; Physicians


KAFKA'S VANISHING POINT, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A scaffold where the unfelicitous moon
Last Line: With no meat on its bones
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Writing And Writers


KAFKA'S WATCH, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a job with a tiny salary of 80 crowns
Last Line: To your ear in disbelief
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


KAKFA'S OTHER METAMORPHOSIS, by LEONARD GASPARINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Franz kakfa had a nightmare
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Metamorphosis


LIBRARIAN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The somber librarian believes he's kafka
Last Line: Waxed, pointed, real severe-looking
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Librarians And Libraries


LITERARY WORLD: 1, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear kafka
Last Line: Then you'll know about depression
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you
Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


TEMPORARY CITY, by NIJOLE MILIAUSKAITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking %in the evening
Last Line: Saying %yes
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Life, Modern; Lithuania


THE LIBRARIAN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The somber librarian believes he's kafka
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


THE LITERARY WORLD: 1, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear kafka
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)


WAITING FOR KAFKA, by RICHARD JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I turn on the light. The wind
Last Line: A worm eating its way through newton's apple
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)