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Subject: CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONEY, by VIRGINIA SCHONBORG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's hot corn
Last Line: And franks
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


CONEY ISLAND, by FILLMORE HYDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go to coney island where the bright lights twinkle
Last Line: See a half a million faces %and you won't know one
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Coney Island, New York City


CONEY ISLAND, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you bring me here?
Last Line: Come, let us go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight
Last Line: Forever and forever. ...
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore


NIRVANA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am / a clam!
Subject(s): "clams;coney Island, New York City;sea;" Ocean


REMEMBERING THE SIGNS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father took me to coney island
Last Line: Getting to see it all as it was then
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Memory


SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 1. IDEAL DISORDERS, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miles of rows of orange trash cans
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 2. A NEW WORLD, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Torn maps, pages in spume
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 4. THE TOWER, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tower of men
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


STILL LIFE: CONEY ISLAND & COUNTRY GYM, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The guys who wrestled
Last Line: Through the sand, love %I can feel it shaking
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Fights; Wrestling And Wrestlers


THAT DEAR CONEY, by CHESTER FIRKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A city walled against the golden day
Last Line: "for here the ways of light and laughter lie."
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City