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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OFFICE EMPLOYEES Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 302 ARREST WARRANT, by ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH Poem Source First Line: The first thing she does is pour cereal for Last Line: The skin on her face reverberates in bass. You can really hear it Subject(s): Insanity; Office Employees A DEATH AT THE OFFICE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news goes desk to desk Subject(s): Death; Office Employees; Dead, The; Clerks AT THE OFFICE, by STANLEY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: You cannot find yourself in this calm Last Line: The walls are padded and you are held %together by your clothes Subject(s): Office Employees CITY, by ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was called a spy last week by Last Line: And which would put me on probation Subject(s): Office Employees DEATH AT THE OFFICE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news goes desk to desk Last Line: The scribbles from her calendar Subject(s): Death; Office Employees DISJUNCTION, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: On my knees in my office Last Line: In the same office where I scheme to procure permanent tenure Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Change; Office Employees DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Variant Title(s): Dolour Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness; Clerks DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Last Line: Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows, %glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey stan Variant Title(s): Dolou Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest DRONE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a clerk Last Line: I clerk Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks DRONE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a clerk Last Line: I am a medical billing clerk %I am a clerk %I clerk Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees FOR A LIVING, SELS., by FRANCES PHILLIPS Subject(s): Office Employees GETAWAY CARS, by ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH Poem Source First Line: Who is more hated than a meter maid? Last Line: They would grumble, %'who owns me?' Subject(s): Automobiles - Parking; Office Employees GREEN AND RED, VERDE Y ROJO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night, when beacon hill Last Line: And all the hours of the night %to picture the executioners Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Office Employees; Paintings And Painters IN RE ALFRED EMERY CATHIE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1887, alfred cathie / became the private clerk of samuel butler Last Line: "yes, there's tobacco in it -- you may go!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Office Employees; Clerks KEEP TIME AWAY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On some mornings she calls him up just as lunchtime begins, and Last Line: Him. How can she convince him that it is love and only love that %keeps her here away from him? Subject(s): Office Employees MAN IN THE OPEN DOORWAY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the world in which he lives Last Line: And stroke the wall as if it were %some attendant beast Subject(s): Office Employees OFFICE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the time clock's feverish ticks Last Line: Intense focus on small things %keeps sane Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is in the deep freeze Last Line: Stylized beyond reality. Subject(s): Facades; Marriage; Office Employees; Appearances; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Clerks OFFICE POLITICS, by WANDA COLEMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white boss / stops at my desk to see how I'm doing Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks OFFICE POLITICS, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white boss %stops at my desk to see how I'm doing Last Line: And goes back to work Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees OFFICES, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of days / with numbers hung on them Last Line: At the holiday party? Subject(s): Office Employees; Office Work; Clerks ON MY DESK TWO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Duct tape and saltine crackers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Office Employees POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My man loads up. We start Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart. Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen REPORT, by JON SWAN Poem Source First Line: When I wake up again, when I wake up Last Line: And, after the subway, walk up to the night Subject(s): Office Employees RETURN TO WORK, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I have returned to the job from which I was fired a whole decade ago Last Line: I am a new man. How wonderful. How wonderful it is to return to work Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Office Employees; Secrets SONG FROM A TWO-DESK OFFICE, by BYRON BUCK Poem Source First Line: Randal groveling works where I work Last Line: Why must I this short life share with %randal groveling? Subject(s): Office Employees SONG OF THE GPO, by GERRY HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I'm the bloke that's trained to sit behind the public stamp machines Last Line: Than to write yer flippin' letter %after five, then you deserve to go without Subject(s): Office Employees; Postal Service STENOGRAPHER'S BREAKFAST, by FRANCES MCCUE Poem Source First Line: Legs pinched together, I play the machine Last Line: Imagine the alternative chaos Subject(s): Office Employees THE BANK CLERK AND THE STABLE KEEPERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Showing how peter was undone Last Line: He had refused to lend a pound! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Office Employees; Stables; Clerks THE CLERK, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two and two are four, four and three are seven Last Line: Through the long celestial day. Subject(s): Heaven; Office Employees; Paradise; Clerks THE CLERKS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not think that I should find them there Last Line: Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks THEY HAD TORN OFF MY FACE AT THE OFFICE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It pleases them to have helped me, %and I gain in speed and confidence Subject(s): Office Employees THINKING ABOUT MOSES IN THE RECEPTIONIST'S L, by ELLEN MCGRATH SMITH Poem Source First Line: My boss like the christian station Last Line: Because I'm losing my voice, if %in fact I ever had one Subject(s): Office Employees THIRTY BOB A WEEK, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw Last Line: And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom; Office Employees; Liberty; Clerks TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT FRANK: 1. OFFICE WORKERS, FAST FOOD, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: What were they looking at, this quintet of secretaries perched on stools Last Line: Keep if handsome came along Subject(s): Office Employees; Photography And Photographers UNFINISHED GHOST STORY (2), by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This used to be her office Last Line: Isn't that dangerous business? %routine, these days Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees WHITE, WHITE COLLARS, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We work in this building and we are hideous Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks WHITE, WHITE COLLARS, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We work in this building and we are hideous Last Line: And break, and I see my previous lives Subject(s): Office Employees WORKING AT THE WHOLESALE CURTAIN SHOWROOM, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Can you type?' jake said Last Line: I'll never get anywhere with her %if she's an intellectual.' 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