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Subject: SHRIMP
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` SEA DRIFT, by EILEEN BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They would sit, two or three of them as a rule, on the cast-iron seat
Last Line: The slow pace of nature's change gave them some kind of peace
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea; Shrimp


SHRIMP, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp
Last Line: Is rather a nuisance
Subject(s): Shrimp


SHRIMP, by KAY RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shrimp is
Subject(s): Shrimp


SNARK WAS A BOOJUM WAS A PRAWN, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could some descending escalator
Last Line: That's exactly where I myself would have went if I'd %been mysterious, succulent, unindentified
Subject(s): Shrimp


THE SHRIMP, SELS, by MOSES BROWNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A shrimp! Black thing as widow's crape
Last Line: You choke the pretty harmless chickens.
Subject(s): Shrimp; Prawns