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Subject: POPULAR CULTURE - UNITED STATES Matches Found: 203 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-NOV-83, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were doing laundry Last Line: Your father held me %against his thin chest %for twenty years whispering %'ain't no indian loves mar Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 8-BALL AT THE TWILITE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The team of budweiser horses Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons 8-BALL AT THE TWILITE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The team of budweiser horses Last Line: Running hard for the far green corners Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States A STORY OFTEN TOLD IN BARS: THE READER'S DIGEST VERSION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First I was born and it was tough on mom Last Line: The life that matters not the one I've led Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A TERROR IS MORE CERTAIN, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A terror is more certain than all the rare desirable popular songs I Last Line: Fuck on t.V. & all those cowboys watching Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Poetry & Poets AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter spreads her legs Last Line: And the pink's in us Subject(s): Daughters; Popular Culture - United States AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter spreads her legs Last Line: That we're in the pink %and the pink's in us Subject(s): Daughters; Popular Culture - United States AFTER THE WEDDING PARTY, by MATT ROHRER Poem Source First Line: The sun set early on the forest Last Line: And I plugged heather griggs Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ALL-NIGHT DINER, by III MARKHAM P. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Tonight, you will not tire Last Line: And turns over the vacancy sign to full Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants AN ANOINTING, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys have to slash their fingers to become brothers. Girls Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ANOINTING, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys have to slash their fingers to become brothers. Girls Last Line: The katabatic action begins. Molly down my canal binnacle first, her %water breaking in me like an a Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States APOCALYPSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turning from plato to the rocky sergeant Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Popular Culture - United States APPARITION, by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: One admires the american form of these sightings Last Line: Mystery surpassing inexplicable desire Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ARROWHEAD CHRISTIAN CENTER AND NO-SMOKING LUNCHEONETTE, by JANET SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: Each saturday, our father downtown to work Last Line: I would never go near the lunchonette again Subject(s): Lust; Popular Culture - United States BARBIE SAYS MATH IS HARD, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: As a boy, I'd still have asked Last Line: Her daughters: yes, math was hard %but not because we were girls Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Popular Culture - United States; Schools; Women BARBIE'S MOLESTER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His penis rises before him, a compulsion. He would take hormones if Last Line: He's doing things he never thought of Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BARBIE'S MOLESTER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His penis rises before him, a compulsion. He would take hormones if Last Line: He mistakes this for love. Suddenly he's doing things even he's never %thought of Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BECAUSE YOU'RE AMERICAN, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: You love the hum of a well-oiled engine about to turn 200,000 Last Line: Back to yank his leg, oh blessings, white pelicans in iowa Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BILLIE IN SILK, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to say to you, billie holiday Last Line: My mouth is on fire. Let it burn Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers BIRTH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: Mid-february in america. Cold everywhere but florida Last Line: So they cut my mother's belly and drag me %wailing too Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Source First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Last Line: Do - do %do Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers; Women's Rights BLONDE AMBITION, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: The only miracle I ever wanted as a kid Last Line: Fear lifting you up, cheeks hot with light Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BLUE SUEDE SHOES, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heliotrope sprouts from your shoes, brother Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BLUE SUEDE SHOES, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heliotrope sprouts from your shoes, brother Last Line: There's nothing that doesn't belong to me Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were french, I'd write / about breasts Subject(s): Breasts; Love - Erotic; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I were french, I'd write %about breasts Last Line: Bogart is staring at lauren bacall's breasts %as if they might start speaking Subject(s): Breasts; Erotic Love; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baron has decided to mate the monster Last Line: As his hideous body grabs them Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BY-PRODUCTS, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The legion hall in atherton contains Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Veterans CADILLAC MOON, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries CATALOGUE ARMY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something has happened to my name Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States CATALOGUE ARMY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something has happened to my name Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Last Line: Sagged heavy with milk, swollen %and unsuckled Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CORPSE AND MIRROR: 3, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the movie ends and the lights come on, the audience is puzzled Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States CORPSE AND MIRROR: 3, by JOHN YAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the movie ends and the lights come on, the audience is puzzled Last Line: Long since fallen in. By then the mirror will have vanished and the %movie will have started. This t Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States COUNTERFEIT EARTH!, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 2157. Two adventuring spacemen rocketing home Last Line: Zen: the writing is the wall Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DANCING SUNSHINE LOUNGE, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: The calendar is ironic. The stripper dances Last Line: She can't care. She loves us each like a friend Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DAVID CASSIDY THEN, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: David cassidy picks me on the dating game Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States DAY THEY EULOGIZED MAHALIA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The day the city eulogized mahalia Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DAYS OF 1981, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambridge street, summer Last Line: A blue I could barely see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DAYS OF 1981, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambridge street, summer Last Line: The astonishing flowers, seething %a blue a could barely see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ambulance men touched her cold Last Line: Woman %breathing Subject(s): Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Popular Culture - United States DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEPSI AND COKE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat Last Line: Knows the new maid steals; and forgives her Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DIZZY GIRLS IN THE SIXTIES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back then even the good girls got dizzy Last Line: Thumb-long flesh beginning to steer me wrong Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DREAMING AT THE REXALL DRUG, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In wyoming, at the confluence Last Line: Imperfect color after another Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States EARLY AMERICAN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From brazil to miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard Last Line: The pale hands of our brothers upon us Subject(s): Billboards; Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America EL ELVIS, by WASABI KANASTOGA Poem Source First Line: El elvis %puro pedo %bien chingon Last Line: Y no me voy Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States END OF THE REAGAN ERA, by PETER BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: Endless horizons of wheat and corn Last Line: The way they tail off to the beautiful barns Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FAMOUS WOMEN - CLAUDETTE COLBERT, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: He was quite a guy how he laughed like oh what's the name of the guy Last Line: Not that we can tell which was which Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996); Motion Pictures; Popular Culture - United States FIRST ROCK AND ROLL SONG OF 1970, by PEDRO PIETRI Poem Source First Line: The unemployed sky above the clouds Last Line: Will learn how to read the help wanted ads Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store Last Line: I knew you - when you %still had hair! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA AND ANTHROPOLOGIST INTERPRETER TEACHING GARTEWIEN, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's done phonetically, of course, at great Last Line: Dr, singh: mean: everybody - die - together - here Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FRANKENSTEIN, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: Frankenstein naps on a golden bed Last Line: Or will you quickly distribute fire? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FREELY ESPOUSING, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A commingling sky Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FROM EPHEMERA TODAY ON ALL MY CHILDREN, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: Natalie gets discovered in her pit an old, drunken transient Last Line: A sex offender enters - just his breath on the phone Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FUNICELLO AT 50, by KLIPSCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: Annette has ms, she needs mickey's help Last Line: On some far coast, the surf's up Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States GHOSTS, by WILLIAM CARPENTER Poem Source First Line: Every evening I do this. I stop work, and though Last Line: I raise the volume. I quicken my pace a little, to catch up Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The professor and ginger are standing in the space in front Last Line: To start. Clouds appear in the sky, and it begins to snow Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States GYPSY TEACHERS HER GRANDCHILD WOLFEN WAYS, by SUSAN SWARTWOUT Poem Source First Line: All tongues tell their monsters, shapes Last Line: Pray the gleam shines from faith not fang Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HAROLD AND IMOGENE, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful imogene is finally alone Last Line: His head against the mantelpiece and sobs Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HAZEL TELLS LAVERNE, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: Last night %im cleanin out my Last Line: Me %a princess Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HEAVY WATER BLUES, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radio is teaching my goldfish jujitsu Last Line: But me and my son laughed in our furnished room Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HOMAGE TO ELVIS, HOMAGE TO THE FATHERS, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night the pimps' cars slide past the burning mill Last Line: Of our next moment alive Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HYGIENE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men wash their hands five times a day Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HYGIENE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men wash their hands five times a day Last Line: In how to become someone else %who isn't moving anymore Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States IF I WERE RITA HAYWORTH, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: I would hear spanish first Last Line: Wide enough to swallow the damnation of my beauty Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what are the sins Last Line: To believe in new beginnings? Could I be moved? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Pain; Popular Culture - United States; Suffering; Misery IN HERITAGE FARMS, SETTLED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their tennis whites, their pastel izods, all day the women Last Line: Of the hornworm inching toward the wings of the phoenix moth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Consumerism; Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction IN THE BLACK CAMARO, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the orange glow of taillights, I crossed Last Line: A truck in a thicket a half-mile downstream. Subject(s): Conspiracy; Insurance & Insurance Agents; Popular Culture - United States; Worry IN THE BLUEMIST MOTEL, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: I hear voices in the next room Last Line: Is falling asleep in his own bed Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States IN THE DAYS OF RIN-TIN-TIN, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And overtook the little fellow on his way to school Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States INCOGNITO LOUNGE, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The manager lady of this Last Line: And were married to a deep %comprehension and terror Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States INDIAN CAR, by CATRON GRIEVES Poem Source First Line: Driving to the winnebago pow-wow, across iowa in the august evening Last Line: To gas up this indian car Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States IOWA BLUES BAR SPIRITUAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little tokyo bar -- / ladies night, smoky gauze balcony, whispering tommy becker Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IOWA BLUES BAR SPIRITUAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little tokyo bar -- %ladies night, smoky gauze balcony, whispering tommy becker Last Line: Opal-eyed suzie in a flannel shirt; we beckon the spark, the body to live Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL BUT I LIKE IT : THE FALL OF SAIGON, 1975, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The guttural stammer of the chopper blades Last Line: His fists beating time. Then the hands giving way Variant Title(s): 'it's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It': The Fall Of Saigon, 197 Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JACK, AFTERWARDS, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: It's difficult to say what it all meant Last Line: Not even my mother knew, when she could see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JACKIE IN CAMBODIA, by CATHERINE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: The air force jet set down like a god Last Line: Jacqueline to us, not quite jackie o Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JAMES DEAN & THE PIG, by JOSEPH LIKE Poem Source First Line: You can't just call it a pig Last Line: This james dean balanced against this gilt Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JEANNE DIXON'S AMERICA, by GERALD COSTANZO Poem Source First Line: San francisco remains in grave personal danger Last Line: Don't look for this to happen any time soon Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States KONG BREAKS A LEG AT THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: First, this one: peetah, peetah, peetah! Last Line: Imagine you're pearl harbour, I said inscrutably Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Last Line: Until we're even. Until the last %coin is rubbed for luck and spent. %I don't sell for nothing less Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States LET THREE DAYS PASS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the one released from feeling Last Line: Showering every two hours and scrubbing their hair. Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island; Tv LIBERACE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It took generations to mature Subject(s): Liberace, Lee (1919-1987); Popular Culture - United States LIBERACE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It took generations to mature Last Line: Knows. Thank you, it breathes %with ointment in its voice, %thank you very much Subject(s): Liberace, Lee (1919-1987); Popular Culture - United States LONELY TYLENOL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You have to begin somewhere Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LONELY TYLENOL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have to begin somewhere Last Line: There there. No place like home Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LOST PARENTS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a fast car / to lead a double life Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LOST PARENTS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a fast car %to lead a double life Last Line: For lost parents %their own age Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LUNCH WITH GIRL SCOUTS, by SHARON BRYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These ten-year-olds all want other names Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MAIL ORDER CATALOGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pewter loons, ceramic bunnies, and faux bamboo Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MAIL ORDER CATALOGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pewter loons, ceramic bunnies, and faux bamboo Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MAN I LOVE AND I SHOP AT JEWEL, by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: Untouched, the door swings open before us, and-voila!-we're in the produce Last Line: Universe, I belt out I feel pretty, oh, so retty in the best ethel merman I can %muster Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MAN SHE CALLED HONEY, AND MARRIED, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In her hands she holds Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MANNEQUINS, by DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: This indecent procession of the undead Last Line: Kiss me, you desecration of a man Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Last Line: Now a fastball, now a slow %curve hanging %like a model's smile Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MARILYN MONROE INDIAN, by LEO ROMERO Poem Source Last Line: Out by zuni %or someplace Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MERICN FST FD, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: Sld bar 1.99+drnk Last Line: All u care 2 eat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MIAMI HEART, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long text, on live tv, in an amphitheater, in the soil Last Line: One writes with one's desire. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Writing & Writers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction MID-YEAR REPORT: FOR HARUKO, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this time / 20,000 tusti had been slaughtered Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MID-YEAR REPORT: FOR HARUKO, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this time %20,000 tusti had been slaughtered Last Line: Remember what %exactly Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MISGUIDED ANGELS, by GALE RENEE WALDEN Poem Source First Line: That summer the women sat on their porches Last Line: To become on our way to love Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MOM DID MARILYN, DAD DID FRED, by JACK MYERS Poem Source First Line: We sat there, her tiny audience Last Line: To have other notions of beauty Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MOON WINX MOTEL, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: The moon winx with its neon eyes and sly smile Last Line: And one unknown: the so-called, still secret: 7x Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States MOTORCYCLISTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cuticles are a mess. Oh honey, by the way Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MOTOWN/ SMOKEY ROBINSON, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey girl, how long you been here? Last Line: Strong now / you really gotta hold on me ... Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Variant Title(s): Motown / Smokey Robinson Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MY FATHER'S PORNOGRAPHY, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The semiotics not of sex but of concealment, the lessons Last Line: His first solid food in weeks Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MY SON SHOWS ME A PHOTOGRAPH OF MICHAEL JORDAN PERFORMING A SLAM DUNK, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: What would jung make of such levitation? Last Line: Do anything this certain, any of us Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MYTHOLOGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope as a garcon manque Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MYTHOLOGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope as a garcon manque Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NEVER LAND, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't wish you were Last Line: Reproduce that face %in the oval mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NO DEPOSIT NO RETURNS, by CARLOS CUMPIAN Poem Source First Line: While passing through a %pueblito en mexico Last Line: Only koca-capital brings Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NO, SUPERMAN WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: In secret, lois lane wore coins and jewels Last Line: Even from clark she kept her crimbals hid Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NOVELTY SHOP, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More grotesque than a row of laundromats Last Line: Into the sea at the end of the pier Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always / takes the straight lines Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always %takes the straight lines Last Line: An angle but only one lime to make a margarita Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OFF FROM SWING SHIFT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late, just past midnight Last Line: No one speaks a word Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ON THE BEARING OF WAITRESSES, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always I thought they suffered, the way they huffed Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ON THE BEARING OF WAITRESSES, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always I thought they suffered, the way they huffed Last Line: Chapters, filling the air with her glamour and her shame Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants ONE MEAT BALL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gets no bread with Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ONE MEAT BALL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gets no bread with Last Line: One meat ball Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States OSHI, by JAMES L. WHITE Poem Source First Line: Oshi has a very large buddha in him, one that can change the air into scented Last Line: His eyelashes, lacquered his nails, and the people cried Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States PAY UP OR ELSE, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: Vincent watchman was shot Last Line: The $3 worth of gas he paid for Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PERSONAL HISTORY OF HANDS, by LORI JAKIELA Poem Source First Line: Spatulate is the word glamour magazine uses Last Line: And what we make for ourselves Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PETER PAN IN NORTH AMERICA, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary martin, leader of the lost boys Last Line: And grown-up play separated the marys from the boys Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PORNOGRAPHY, NEBRASKA, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Once, on that highway where a traveler works hard Last Line: Away from their beds Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States POSTMODERN: A DEFINITION, by JOSEPH LIKE Poem Source First Line: Neither a lender nor a borrower be Last Line: All the others behind Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PUNK PANTOUM, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: Tonight I'll walk the razor along your throat Last Line: Tonight, dragging the white-hot razor across our throats %and back Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States RADIO BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Try 5 on the dial, try 10, 15; Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Radio REVIVAL, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Corso, Gregory (1930-2001) ROMANCE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This frightened, horny boy Last Line: So sure it lasts a lifetime Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States RUMPELSTILTSKIN CONVENTION, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Circus circus swarms with us: floors strewn Last Line: Thinking kevin, thinking jimmy, thinking bo Subject(s): Conventions; Las Vegas, Nevada; Popular Culture - United States SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Last Line: Helpless light, local-looking, unthought of at fourteen Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics; Popular Culture - United States SCRABBLE, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: I was summoned to the porter's lodge for an overseas call from Last Line: Street I would linger there in his presence, studying grace until I froze Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SCREENING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A society intent on living in the present tense Last Line: Of moonlessness overlooking a sea? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Television; Tv SELF PORTRAIT AS NANCY DREW, GIRL SLEUTH, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Sure there are some differences. I'm no virgin Last Line: I will find out. I will expose you Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPLIFTERS, by MAURA STANTON Poem Full Text First Line: I'd smoke in the freezer Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPLIFTERS, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: I'd smoke in the freezer Last Line: Now he peers through the window, %watching me bag groceries %for hours until my hands sweat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPLIFTING, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The store dick lays a hand on your shoulder Last Line: You don't even own a camera Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPPING FOR MIDNIGHT, by G. E. MURRAY Poem Source First Line: There you go, it's everywhere Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cookery; Cafes; Diners SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Last Line: Pressure; responsibility, success, %thirty cheeseburgers, thirty fries Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants SHOWER SCENE IN PSYCHO, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shortly before midnight on friday, august 8, 1969, manson Last Line: Then I read the headline as my eyes adjusted to the sun Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SIAMESE TWINS IN LOVE, by SUSAN SWARTWOUT Poem Source First Line: A lifetime mirrored: chang and eng Last Line: Your tongue down his identical throat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SOAP, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The only time I ever watched dallas Last Line: At us - idle women with nothing to do %but surrender Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SOME ADVENTURES OF JOHN KENNEDY, JR, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's hot, and smoggy as mars outside Last Line: Like a fastball, or a perfect pass Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SONNY'S PURPLE HEART, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Man, if you're dead, why are you leading Last Line: We filed you under dry desert dirt Subject(s): Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; San Francisco STORY OF STONEWALL, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: A story of stonewall goes like this: on the night of judy garland's funeral Last Line: A proud mustache of milk Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States STORY OFTEN TOLD IN BARS: THE READER'S DIGEST VERSION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First I was born and it was tough on mom Last Line: The life that matter's not the one I've led Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States STRIPPER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: On the stage, mirrored many times Last Line: Matching the wine in my veins Subject(s): Family Life; History; Popular Culture - United States; Striptease Dancers SUPERMAN IS DEAD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that immortality Last Line: Back into bed, your body hard and warm Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SUPERMAN IS DEAD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that immortality Last Line: Back into bed, your body hard and warm Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SUZY WONG'S BEEN DEAD A LONG TIME, by KITTY TSUI Poem Source First Line: A friend calls, says Last Line: And suzy wong's been dead a long time Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TABLOID NEWS, by BLYTHE NOBLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Earthquakes could be caused Last Line: Clamor like a carillon Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Last Line: For what we still had to lose. Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States TALK SHOW, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman heard angels. The paper says angels Last Line: On earth as it is in heaven Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TEACHING POETRY AT VOTECH HIGH, SANTA FE, THE WEEK JOHN LENNON WAS SHO, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crepe paper christmas Last Line: Later that day it rained Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TED'S BAR AND GRILL, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every night at this place Last Line: And twisting my own sour mouth into a grin Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baron has decided to mate the monster Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE COUNTERFEIT EARTH!, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 2157. Two adventuring spacemen rocketing home Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE COVER OF MARS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lucille ball - desi arnaz hour concludes Last Line: I give you back my heaven. You're all in my head. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ambulance men touched her cold Subject(s): Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Popular Culture - United States THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEPSI AND COKE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE GENERAL'S BRIEFING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the infant formula plant Last Line: No salt for tears no sea for sewage -- Subject(s): Apathy; Military-industrial Complex; Popular Culture - United States; War; War - Home Front THE INCOGNITO LOUNGE, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The manager lady of this Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts THE MOTORCYCLISTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cuticles are a mess. Oh honey, by the way Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE SOCIAL SWIM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The social swim! You know the rules Last Line: The social swim. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Classes; Social Protest; Caste THE TALK SHOW, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman heard angels. The paper says angels Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your tired, your poor Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States TOYS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing them like this Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOYS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing them like this Last Line: That it also comes this way, in parts Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States TRADITION AND CHANGE, by NORA NARANJO-MORSE Poem Source First Line: My mission was to sell pottery from booth 109 Last Line: On this hot, full day Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TRANSIENT HOTEL SKY AT THE HOUR OF SLEEP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the late shift, front desk Last Line: By the desk, then leered %at the jabbering smokers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Hotels; Popular Culture - United States TRUE STORY OF SNOW WHITE, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Almost before the princess had grown cold Last Line: Which not a prince on earth has power to break Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TV, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the preachers claimed it was satan Last Line: Then everyone disappearing into the houses Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TV IN BLACK AND WHITE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the mid-sixties Last Line: We miss you ozzie Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States UP, by BILL KUSHNER Poem Source First Line: This? It's my lounge lizard look, very Last Line: Love & thank you for the best performance by a male Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States VANNA WHITE'S BREAD PUDDING, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: If not famous ourselves, oh let us Last Line: Into my heretofore but no more anonymous lap Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv VIET KONG, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Each one showed me his gold medal Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WAITRESS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but holdit long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners WAITRESS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but to hold it long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants WE ENCOUNTER NAT KING COLE AS WE INVENT THE FUTURE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camme and I listened to nat king cole and she sweetly lay her head Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WE ENCOUNTER NAT KING COLE AS WE INVENT THE FUTURE, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camme and I listened to nat king cole and she sweetly lay her head Last Line: Became love %suddenly Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHEN I THINK ABOUT AMERICA SOMETIMES (I THINK OF RALPH KRAMDEN), by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Raising the truncheon of an arm Last Line: The dust may never settle Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Last Line: To find me now will cost you everything Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHY DON'T I?, by O. F. DIAZ-DUQUE Poem Source First Line: It came one day like a thunderbolt Last Line: Tell me %why? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHY THAT'S BOB HOPE, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: The comedian, holding a chunk of flaming shale Last Line: Where he'll bust our boys' guts on tour in el salvador Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHY WE BOMBED HAIPHONG, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I bought bubble gum Last Line: Like a girl. Then the rest %of us pitched in and hit Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WOODSTOCK, by JAN MITCHELL SHERRILL Poem Source First Line: That summer I went to woodstock Last Line: Him and touching him in middle-aged sunlight Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States |
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