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Subject: MIGRANT LABOR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MIGRANT, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A migrant from the waking world to sleep's
Last Line: Hastening lest death should find him unemployed.
Subject(s): Fear; Migrant Labor; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers


BROKEN RHYTHMS; IN A MEXICAN LABOR CAMP, by AMANDA MATHEWS CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: La golondrina
Last Line: New music?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Migrant Labor; Music & Musicians; Mexican Americans; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers


CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and
Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors


FINAL SOLUTION: JOBS, LEAVING, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They would leave
Last Line: The women were so angry
Subject(s): Migrant Labor; Chicanos; Farewell; Labor & Laborers


GOING CROSSLOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who says with solemn pride
Last Line: "that ""wheel"" themselves to death."
Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Migrant Labor; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers


MIGRANT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Desire comes up in us
Last Line: To a show that has always been playing
Subject(s): Migrant Labor; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers


MIGRANT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Desire comes up in us
Last Line: To a show that has always been playing
Subject(s): Migrant Labor


SALAD LA RAZA, by JANET CAMPBELL HALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crisp %pale green
Last Line: I tried not to think %of caesar chavez
Subject(s): Chavez, Cesar (1927-1993); Migrant Labor; Salads


STOCK AND VERMONT PUNKINS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you what 'twas fun to do
Last Line: The same as hide and hair.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Hunger; Migrant Labor; Pumpkins; Vermont; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers