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Subject: GOMORRAH
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning
Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision."
Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


ORTHODOXIES 18, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm the king,' a spoiled child was shouting with his little
Last Line: Children at a bottle game. Then mount them at full tilt an ottoman. Hey
Subject(s): Gomorrah


ORTHODOXIES 5, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is an axiom. She made the wrong life's choice. The city
Last Line: The he-aunt who embroiders a metamorphosis
Subject(s): Gomorrah; Social Problems; Turkey


THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O dread was the night, when o'er sodom's wide plain
Last Line: Now blooms where those cities were burned.
Subject(s): Gomorrah; Sodom