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Subject: SPECULATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-AUG-39, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you want to distract your mother from the
Last Line: Writers and readers of the liberal weeklies?
Subject(s): Injustice; Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921); Speculation


AT ONE WEEK OLD, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He will be straight and strong and fair
Last Line: Like that behind his daddy's ear!
Subject(s): Babies; Future; Mothers; Sons; Speculation; Infants


HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon
Last Line: What does it mean. This is not a question, but an exclamation
Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe


HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon
Last Line: This is not a question, but %an exclamation
Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe


ISRAEL FREYER'S BID FOR GOLD, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zounds! How the price went flashing through
Last Line: And give us a better atmosphere!
Subject(s): Gold; Speculation


LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me what I thought about
Last Line: I didn't have anything to think about
Subject(s): Love; Speculation; Thought


NIGHT BELOW ZERO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still
Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation; Bedtime


NIGHT BELOW ZERO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 3 am, the night is absolutely still
Last Line: Locked between the mountains
Subject(s): Night; Skiing; Speculation


OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can they write or paint
Last Line: Fed intravenously?
Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation


OBSERVATIONS IN A CORNISH TEASHOP, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can they write or paint
Last Line: Would it be nicer to be %fed intravenously?
Subject(s): Cornwall, England; Social Protest; Speculation


PROBLEM STRUCK ME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the crew from the tele- %phone company came to replace
Last Line: More than a life of speculation
Subject(s): Speculation; Telephones


THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY 1ST, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daddy played the market
Last Line: With poems that think they're money
Subject(s): Familylife; Stock Exchange; Money; Speculation


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me what I thought about
Subject(s): Love; Speculation; Thought; Thinking


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation; Male-female Relations


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 8, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether or not, it is no question now
Last Line: A cynical, levantine prayer
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Speculation


VALUE NEUTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traders, parsons, and stoolpigeons
Last Line: The best income tax attorneys
Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Speculation; Thought