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Subject: VAUDEVILLE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FINDING VAUDEVILLE, by ERIC P. ELSHTAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a seam to cleave %the doctor's model heart
Last Line: It was blessing nearby %disguised as grass
Subject(s): Vaudeville


RAIN AFTER A VAUDEVILLE SHOW, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead
Last Line: I stamped the ground in the strong joy of life!
Subject(s): Vaudeville


VAUDEVILLE, by MARGERY DOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Acrobats -- cruelly torturing muscles
Last Line: The audience roars!
Subject(s): Acrobats & Acrobatism; Theater & Theaters; Vaudeville; Stage Life


VAUDEVILLE, by LINCOLN KIRSTEIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pete petersen, before this bit, a professional entertainer
Subject(s): Vaudeville