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Subject: WAXWORKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASSASSINATION OF JOHN LENNON ... TUSSAUD WAX MUSEUM, by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smuggled human hair from mexico
Last Line: To renew the scream. %the chest starts up again
Subject(s): Bands; Beatles, The; Lennon, John (1940-1980); Music And Musicians; Tussaud's Wax Museum; Waxworks


AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S IN VICTORIAN YEARS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That same first-fiddler who leads the orchestra tonight
Last Line: Yes; gamuts that graced forty years'-flight were not a small thing!
Subject(s): Tussaud's Wax Museum; Waxworks


IN THE HOUSE OF WAX, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far-sighted into yesterday
Subject(s): Waxworks


POSTMORTEM, by CLARE ROSSINI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having stood at the edge of a hole dug
Last Line: And on fake metal, the thud of living rose
Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Prayer; Waxworks


TRIALS, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the garden the country begins
Last Line: In the sun the clay %dries on the grafts
Subject(s): Waxworks


WAX FATHER, by NICK FLYNN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each day / the son came for more, scraping comb
Last Line: His entire body hung there
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Sickness; Waxworks; Illness