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Subject: LUNCH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STEP AWAY FROM THEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go
Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets; Avenues


AT LUNCH WITH PSYCHIATRISTS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Psychiatrists sit up straight in contoured chairs
Last Line: They turn aside and interrupt each pther
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Lunch


ESSAY ON LUNCH, by WALKER GIBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quick lunch! Quick lunch! The neon cries, and I
Last Line: And let the hasty hustle, if they will
Subject(s): Lunch


EXPLAINING POETRY TO A FRIEND, OVER LUNCH, by CARLOS MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is magical stuff. That's what I told you
Last Line: A final echo, the tail end of it, the very last thing %you'd ever want to hear
Subject(s): Lunch; Poetry And Poets


LIGHT LUNCH, by ROSALYN STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city is rouged with roses
Last Line: Leaving its film on my fingers
Subject(s): Cities; Lunch


LUNCH, by FRANCIS (FRANK) STEWART FLINT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Frail beauty
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is necessary
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: The kids across the street
Last Line: How your hands freeze. %on a pie slice
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lanternslides grinding out b-flat minor
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lanternslides grinding out b-flat minor
Last Line: To see what they are, because it's time for lunch
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by JOHN URBAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A toothless old man
Last Line: He touches me, points %to my coke can. %it's empty
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by CHUCK WACHTEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He puts his feet
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The table is loaded. I marvel at my
Last Line: Than the rest; it is hard now to imagine %such connoisseurship
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH AGAIN, by SUZANNE HELFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm having the fettucini alfredo
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH AT A CLUB, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The member with the face like a pale ham
Last Line: The eldest member drops his coffee spoon.
Subject(s): Lunch


LUNCH AT HELEN FRANKENTHALER'S, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wake up / what was I dreaming about?
Subject(s): Frankenthaler, Helen (b. 1928); Lunch; Paintings & Painters


LUNCH AT HELEN FRANKENTHALER'S, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wake up %what was I dreaming about?
Subject(s): Frankenthaler, Helen (b. 1928); Lunch; Paintings And Painters


LUNCH AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM, by ROGER WEINGARTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mouth reflected in the glass
Subject(s): Lunch; Russian Tea Room (new York City)


LUNCH IN PARADISE, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perry & joe went pig
Last Line: Poems dancing in the %ladies' lunch-time stories
Subject(s): Heaven; Lunch


LUNCH IN TOWN, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like you better far in country places
Last Line: I wish I had not come to town today.
Subject(s): Lunch; New England


MAN I LUNCH WITH OCCASIONALLY, by ANNA DEMAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eats %sparsely. %when I arrive
Last Line: It fills his glass %every empty space
Subject(s): Lunch; Men; Story-telling


MIRANDA'S LUNCHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The other men may stand in line
Last Line: Miranda, -- and her lunches?
Subject(s): Lunch


NAKED LUNCH, by GERHARD FALKNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A saucy rose revealed
Last Line: Then, rose, head off to sleep %long and deep
Subject(s): Lunch; Sleep


STEP AWAY FROM THEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's my lunch hour, so I go
Last Line: And back to work. My heart is in my %pocket, it is poems by pierre reverdy
Subject(s): Lunch; Reverdy, Pierre (1889-1960); Streets


SUNDAY LUNCH IN PONDER, TEXAS, by MARTHA ELIZABETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the waitresses who knew us had gone
Last Line: I placed my fingertips lightly on his thigh %for the ride home
Subject(s): Lunch; Relationships


THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old man breaking stones
Last Line: And a stone is on her face.
Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


THE LUNCH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gothic window, where a damask curtain
Last Line: With dreamy words -- and very pleasant eating!
Subject(s): Lunch