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Subject: PSYCHIATRY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTERNOON HAPPINESS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At a party I spy a handsome psychiatrist
Last Line: There is only this useless happiness as gift.
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Women; Women's Rights; Joy; Delight; Psychiatrists; Feminism


ANT AND THE THERAPIST, by GAIL MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know you hate us. We startle
Last Line: And tunneling toward darkness
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Psychiatry


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


BIRTHDAY CARD FOR A PSYCHIATRIST, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your friends come fondly to your living room
Last Line: To join us in this neurotic enterprise
Subject(s): Christmas Cards; Psychiatry


ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's crazy to think one could describe them
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Psychiatrists


ESSAY ON PSYCHIATRISTS, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's crazy to think one could describe them
Last Line: Between stars, saying what we can
Subject(s): Psychiatry


GOING TO THE DOCTOR, by CHRISTINE GARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found his office down the long unswept hall
Last Line: In order to know before the frost comes %what was lost
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis


JACARANDA, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was addicted to the tree. No one had ever loved a tree
Last Line: Girl. But mostly he would dream he was being stalked by an %arrogant psychiatrist
Subject(s): Insanity; Psychiatry


MOON MONEY, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: One huge arc
Last Line: Circling his %hushed tongue
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Fathers; Psychiatry; Psychology


PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE, by JEROME J. KLINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doctor, you're a treatment miser
Last Line: To your psychiatric practice- %now quit practicing on me!
Subject(s): Psychiatry


PSYCHIATRY OF SOCKS, by ROGER NASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this brave new world
Last Line: Psychiatrists of socks must be %handsomely underpaid
Subject(s): Hosiery; Psychiatry


RELEASE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Went to a shrink about his writer's block and the shrink
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Writer's Block


THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream
Last Line: It walked out of the light
Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships


THE ROMANCE OF THE RORSCHACH, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The psychiatrist was the dullest, the man with the least imagination
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Psychiatrists


THERAPIES, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no need to work it through
Last Line: But is great rumi's passport valid for america?
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Travel


WHY DO POETS WRITE?, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Full Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My wife, a psychiatrist, sleeps
Last Line: Things I would tell to a poem.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Writing & Writers; Psychiatrists