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Subject: OFFICE WORK
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TUNE FOR THE TELETYPE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O teletype, tell us of time-clocks and trouble
Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Office Work; Life, Modern


AT THE DESK, by THEODOR STORM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spent the entire day in official details
Last Line: Getting this done, finally finishing that
Subject(s): Office Work


CHRISTMAS ALONG THE WIRES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Junction-station - pilot knob
Last Line: "I'll be there on number nine.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Office Work; Telegraph; Nativity, The; Telegrams


FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW, by FRANCES M. BALLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tulip bed is flaming in the square
Last Line: Than in this high tower where I stand.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Flowers; Office Work; Estrangement; Outcasts


JUSTICE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John henry vanderdecken was a modern business man
Last Line: "will stick around ""in conference"" until the end of time!"
Subject(s): Business; Office Work; Businessmen; Businesswomen


LIKE DAYS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: God in heaven, is there anything boring as a meeting
Last Line: Yapping shit?
Subject(s): Boredom; Office Work


MY STUDY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Four walls papered blue
Last Line: To complete my study.
Subject(s): Absence; Office Work; Separation; Isolation


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


THE EXECUTIVE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The women who work for us
Last Line: Into the evening.
Subject(s): Office Work; Women


THE ULTIMATUM, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can decorate your office
Last Line: "that typewriter shall go."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Office Work; Typewriters


UNCLASSIFIED POEM, by LIU ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The work in my office keeps piling up
Last Line: O to have such fleet feathers %and to bob in the waves along with you
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Office Work