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Subject: VACUUM CLEANERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLIPPING, by WANDA PRAISNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vacuuming a chair
Last Line: How as we swam away, a garua mist %swallowed them--the gray place %where we learn to live with less
Subject(s): Death - Children; Vacuum Cleaners


IN A DREAM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A vacuum cleaner held over my head
Last Line: With my satellite heart, brain, bones and blood
Subject(s): Dreams; Vacuum Cleaners; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The


THE ELECTRIC CARPET-SWEEPER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn of a hand
Last Line: To work in the heavenly way!
Subject(s): Vacuum Cleaners


THE VACUUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is so quiet now
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Vacuum Cleaners; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


VACUUM, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is so quiet now
Last Line: And still the hungry, angry heart %hangs on and howls, biting at air
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Vacuum Cleaners