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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S MINT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When young, I kissed a miser man
Last Line: Cry out for silver, and for gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Debt; Poverty; Social Problems


A LETTER ON THE USE OF MACHINE GUNS AT WEDDINGS, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the soldier, like the sailor
Last Line: Who hasn't the guts to deal with sluts, guys like me and you.
Subject(s): Social Problems


A LETTER TO A POLICEMAN IN KANSAS CITY, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lot of men and armies stand to take
Last Line: And any man can live on earth when we're through with it.
Subject(s): Police; Social Problems


A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray
Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits
Last Line: After our war, how will love speak?
Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War


AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America


ANY CITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the staring street / she goes on her nightly round
Last Line: The night with its pitiless stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Cities; Social Problems; Urban Life


APRES LE METRO DERNIER, by GERALD LOCKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who would you have been
Subject(s): Social Problems


AT 31 FLAVORS, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wait with two other women
Last Line: Leave, looking innocent. That's how all these things start
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Ice Cream; Social Problems


AXIOMATIC, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sage seems ridiculous
Last Line: To theft and thuggery
Subject(s): Social Problems


BALLAD OF BALLYMOTE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stopped at her hut
Last Line: Cabbage and bones, she said. Cabbage %and bones
Subject(s): Social Problems


BATTLE-CRIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, jim hez gone-ye didn't know?
Last Line: Sick of his bloody spree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Social Problems


BEACH PARTY POST, by IVAN E. ROTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bless us oh mother liz taylor
Subject(s): Social Problems


BETTER OFF DEAD, by LINDA MONACELLI JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What if I decided to kill myself?
Subject(s): Social Problems


BROTHER WOLF, by HAROLD JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the mechanic on his back on the crawler
Subject(s): Social Problems


CAMP CEDAR GLEN, by WILLIAM HOPE HAWKES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Throughout the camp, of buzz of final abandon
Subject(s): Social Problems


CLEANING FISH, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dad, a little drunk, every summer sunday
Last Line: I'd keep every single vow I made
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Children; Parents; Social Problems


COLONIZED LEISURE, TRIVIALIZED WORK, by PAUL DRESMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The base substantiates the star atop the apex
Subject(s): Social Problems


COLORED BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door
Subject(s): Social Problems


DALLAS 1962, by ROGER SUVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must have been august
Subject(s): Social Problems


DEATH OF CHE, by MAGGIE (ARONOFF) JAFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the day that %che guevara died
Subject(s): Guevara, Ernesto (che) (1928-1967); Social Problems


DINOSAURS, by CHRISTOPHER MILLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evidence of their whereabouts
Subject(s): Social Problems


DOLLS, by CAROL BRIDGE WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I make dolls
Subject(s): Social Problems


EATING, by CHRISTINE CHOI AHMED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Closet was full of belts
Last Line: Bit at a time. Drip. Drip. Drip
Subject(s): Child Molesting; Prostitution; Social Problems


EL CAMINO REAL, by CHRIS HANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In california nothing
Subject(s): Social Problems


ELEPHANT ROCK, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We take place in what we believe
Last Line: Jesus saves
Subject(s): Slavery; Social Problems; United States; Serfs; America


EPISODE IN A CONTINUING SERIES, by LOVERNE WILSON BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wait for a bus
Subject(s): Social Problems


EUROPA, by ANATOL STERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abecedary of slaughter
Last Line: This throng of raging bacchantes %is one centimetre of my skin
Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Futurism (art); Social Problems


EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing
Last Line: So large, and strangely broken, and unforseen
Subject(s): Politics; Social Problems; United States


FIGHT GOES ON, by EDILBERTO COUTINHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: First half
Last Line: It was such a pleasure baking it for you
Subject(s): Fights; Human Rights; Mothers And Sons; Social Problems


FIRST JAPANESE FOREIGN MALE, by VELINA HOUSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hiroshi came from okayama
Subject(s): Social Problems


FOR KICKS, by MOIRA KYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Simpson's laid me off, and any other job
Subject(s): Social Problems


FOR MOMS, by LYNN MANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somebody asked me the other day
Last Line: She's doing 'reeeaal' good
Subject(s): Homeless; Mothers; Poverty; Social Problems


FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis
Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda.
Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating


FOUNDERED STAR, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little fevered island, blued to closing
Last Line: About ourselves that aren't true.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Problems; Writing & Writers


GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People who are going to be
Last Line: By their invisibility / denounce us
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Change; Social Problems


GENERATIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People who are going to be
Last Line: By their invisibility %denounce us
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; Change; Social Problems


GUILLMETTE, by GENEVE BALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ma chere petite guillmette
Subject(s): Social Problems


HE IMAGINED THE GORGEOUS PATTERN OF THE NEW SKIN AND SETTLED FOR AMERI, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The quiet which is my wife endures
Last Line: Into the sunset of our bleeding children.
Subject(s): Death; Slavery; Social Problems; Dead, The; Serfs


HIBAKUSA, by MICHAEL DALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is bright midnight. Heat
Subject(s): Social Problems


HIGH SCHOOL CLASS REUNION, by GENEVE BALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The immediate impression given to others listening
Subject(s): Social Problems


HIROSHIMA, by LINDA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The children of physics
Subject(s): Social Problems


I HAVE SEEN BLACK HANDS, by RICHARD WRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am black and I have seen black hands, millions and millions of them
Subject(s): African Americans; Social Problems; Negroes; American Blacks


I HAVE SEEN BLACK HANDS, by RICHARD WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am black and I have seen black hands, millions and millions of them
Last Line: Some day there shall be millions and millions of them, %on some red day in a burst of fists on a new
Subject(s): African Americans; Social Problems


IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts
Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; United States - Race Relations


IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts
Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; U.s. - Race Relations


IN CELEBRATION OF SPRING, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our asian war is over; others have begun
Last Line: That we will be keepers of a garden, nonetheless.
Subject(s): Decay; Social Problems; Soldiers; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Rot; Decadence


IN MEXICO, by DIANA O HEHIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can be lonely on the edge of a riot
Subject(s): Social Problems


JAROSLAV, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This evening frightens me
Last Line: I shudder. Drink more wine
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Social Problems


LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the troops
Subject(s): Social Problems


MAN'S WORLD, by HANK MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seems like a man's world
Subject(s): Social Problems


MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer
Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness


NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS, by BARBARA LA MORTICELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In what the chief of police described
Subject(s): Social Problems


NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those loafers, corner-boys, do-nothings, bums
Last Line: To arrest the momentum of this gathering maelstrom)
Subject(s): Social Problems


NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben
Last Line: At the paris exhibition.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists


NIKOS OF CARAVY STREET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nikos, she said, don't kill yourself
Last Line: One minute left for dead, %the next putting on aftershave
Subject(s): Life; Social Problems


OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york
Last Line: Brother? Brother?
Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism


OLD WHITE MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was leaving the doctor's office
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Social Problems


ON A PERFECT DAY IN DETROIT, by HANK MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is such a beautiful day in april
Subject(s): Social Problems


ON THE MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN GLASGOW, 1860, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen of the west! We hail thee from afar!
Last Line: To lead to heaven, and train for life on earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Conventions; Glasgow, Scotland; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Social Problems; Assemblies; Meetings; Human Race


ORTHODOXIES 5, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is an axiom. She made the wrong life's choice. The city
Last Line: The he-aunt who embroiders a metamorphosis
Subject(s): Gomorrah; Social Problems; Turkey


OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around our center meetinghouse
Last Line: As our poor meetinghouse.
Subject(s): Churches; Public Meetings; Public Worship; Social Problems; Vermont; Cathedrals; Church Attendance


POVERTY OF IMAGINATION, by HANK MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prometheus %the giant
Subject(s): Social Problems


POWER, by HANK MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that we are in a mansion
Subject(s): Social Problems


RAIDS, by MANUEL MANAZAR GAMBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The driver's cold, gray eyes search left
Subject(s): Social Problems


RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street
Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood.
Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War


RETURN TO EL SALVADOR, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will come back first
Last Line: Violently %over your graves
Subject(s): Social Problems


SALVOS FOR RANDOLPH BOURNE, by HORACE GREGORY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: O bitterness never spoken, the death mask etched in
Last Line: Or not to be
Subject(s): Bourne, Randolph Silliman (1886-1918); Critics And Criticism; Social Problems; Social Protest


SEAMSTRESS, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chimneys lowered the sky
Subject(s): Social Problems


SEARCHING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by GINA VALDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We needed a new house
Subject(s): Social Problems


SEGREGATION, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother, my two bothers, myself
Last Line: We want only to disintegrate %into small pieces
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Prejudice; Social Problems


SISTERS BENEATH THE CONCRETE, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have never been on the streets of prague
Last Line: To the follies and hopes %of our kind!
Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Social Problems; Tyranny And Tyrants


SITTING ON MY BED THINKING ABOUT THE RENT, THE BOMB, by GINA VALDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm not sure how I'll
Subject(s): Social Problems


SNAPSHOTS OF THE E.R.A. MARCH, CHICAGO, MAY 10, 1980, by JANET RUTH HELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rain stops at 9:30. People sprout
Subject(s): Social Problems


SOCIETY'S REVERSION, by TIM DIVITO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your garbage is their food
Last Line: Grunting and starting fires with two sticks
Subject(s): Social Problems


SOMEBODY AND SOMEBODY ELSE AND YOU, by EDWIN ROLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, consider as you go your way
Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon
Subject(s): Social Problems


SOMEBODY AND SOMEBODY ELSE AND YOU, by EDWIN ROLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, consider as you go your way
Last Line: While crops in fields and faces in streets %go slowly empty and yellow
Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon
Subject(s): Social Problems


SONG OF THE SPIRIT OF POVERTY, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song, a song, for the beldame queen
Last Line: And my throne the prison cell.
Subject(s): Poverty; Social Problems


STILL LIVES WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE: 2. BROKEN PIECES, by PETER MARKUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happened that on one too many nights in a row his father had come
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Drinks And Drinking; Social Problems


STILL LIVES WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE: 3. WHISKEY LOVE, by PETER MARKUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One summer when he was twelve and his father was for a time not
Last Line: Love
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Social Problems


STOPPING AT TUCSON, by ELIZABETH+(1) HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am related, but not to your mother
Subject(s): Social Problems


STORM, by JORGE J. RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I should face up to the problem
Last Line: To bring an end to these conflicts
Subject(s): Social Problems


STRANGE BIRDS, by LINDA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I noticed them at once
Subject(s): Social Problems


STREET CORNER COLLEGE, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next year the grave grass will cover us
Last Line: Cold stars and the whores.
Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


SUBWAY, by ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel you stiffen
Subject(s): Social Problems


TANKA SEQUENCE FOR THE SIMPLE CREATURES OF HIROSHIMA, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Movement of morning
Subject(s): Social Problems


TAXPAYER'S BLUES - I'VE GOT A RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES, by GLORY FOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: United states spreads like a giant oil slick
Subject(s): Social Problems


TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS, 1968 - 1969, by KAY BOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each year you came jogging or loping down that hall
Last Line: Their young arms cradling your bones.
Subject(s): Literature; Oppression; Revolutions; Schools; Social Problems; Students


THE BALLAD OF BALLYMOTE, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stopped at her hut
Last Line: “cabbage and bones,” she said.  “cabbage and bones.”
Subject(s): Social Problems; Ireland


THE COLORED BIRDS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a highrise apt. Next door
Last Line: He's one of the few real men around / here
Subject(s): Social Problems


THE LITTLE FISH DEVOURS THE BIG FISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the troops
Subject(s): Social Problems


THE OLD WHITE MAN, by WANDA COLEMAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was leaving the doctor's office
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Social Problems


THE SPLEEN; AN EPISTLE TO MR. CUTHBERT JACKSON, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This motley piece to you I send
Last Line: Life's voyage to the world unknown.
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Religion; Social Problems; Spleen (organ); Theology


THE VAGABOND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: Tormented day and night by fleas
Last Line: And eat up all the bloody food!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Social Problems; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE VIOLENCE OF PRONOUN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loving came her way
Last Line: "that makes us vicious."
Subject(s): Marriage; Racism; Slavery; Social Problems; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Serfs


THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black
Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.'
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THEY ARE HONKING AT A WOMAN, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Social Problems


THIRD EYE WORLD, by DAVID HENDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faces in the street
Subject(s): Social Problems


TO ARMS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can be dull or wrapped in unconcern
Last Line: Out of this arrogant and blundering age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Social Problems


TO LABOR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall you complain who feed the world?
Last Line: Believe and dare and do!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Social Problems; Work; Workers


TO MARY ROCKWELL, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They thought you'd finally killed yourself
Last Line: A hollow ping; the room is dark
Subject(s): Death; Social Problems; Suicide


TRAVELIN ON THE GAVELSTON TOUR CAR TRACK, by GENEVE BALEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Social Problems


TWINS, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only feature june and jerry had in common
Last Line: Echoed with their screams, until last %they were clean, and forgiven
Subject(s): Social Problems


UNDOMESTICATED ANIMALS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They cost a lot, they're a heap of bother
Last Line: We're glad we've got them, because, you see—
Subject(s): Boys; Social Problems


UNHAPPY ENDINGS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In their first fight, collin jones, with his pale skin like mine
Last Line: Bottles rain %on the ring: green vases exploding into white bouquets
Subject(s): Fights; Social Problems; Social Workers


VAPOR TRAIL REFLECTED IN THE FROG POND, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old watch: their
Last Line: Seeing the drifting sun that gives us our lives.
Subject(s): Social Problems; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War


VISIT OF DIPLOMACY: CENTRAL AMERICA, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wife of a visiting politician
Variant Title(s): Gautemal
Subject(s): Central America; Social Problems


WANDERING MINDS: AFTER SEEING SUMIDAGAWA, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why am I remembering %the birds of hiroshima
Subject(s): Social Problems


WHEN THE POLICY CHANGES, by DOAN VAN MINH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever the policy changes
Last Line: Don't bother about the time being %no matter what kind of life we are living now
Subject(s): Human Rights; Social Problems; Vietnam - Communist Regime


WHERE WORK IS SCARCE, by KEVIN FITZPATRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not safe to be out of work around here
Subject(s): Social Problems


WHY DO I BEHAVE SO BADLY?, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A good answer
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Self-righteousness; Social Problems