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Subject: LONG ISLAND (N.Y.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF DOROTHY, by ARTHUR KETCHUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's dorothy! Where's dorothy?
Last Line: Why, who but dorothy?
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


A SONG, by FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: This I learned from the birds
Last Line: Only you, dear, you.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


AFTERNOON: AMAGANSETT BEACH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The broad beach, %sea-wind and and the sea's irregular rhythm
Last Line: His footprint is his image fallen from heaven
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


AMAGANSETT BEACH REVISITED, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more I move among you, dear familiar places
Last Line: On the now vanished past
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


ANDY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sitting in this casino restaurant
Last Line: And play your favorite %numbers: 3, 13 and 33
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


AT BAY RIDGE, LONG ISLAND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass
Last Line: Daisies are trembling over keats's grave.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


BACHELOR SONG, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's saturday night and lisa
Last Line: Like a whistled song
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


BEACH, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: While they met with the real estate brokers
Last Line: They were going over bids, strategies
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


BLACK JESS, by PETER KANE DUFAULT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was no good. Somewhere
Last Line: One day in the marine atlases of the world to designate %a dot on long island sound
Subject(s): African Americans; Long Island (n.y.); Wanderers And Wandering


COLOPHON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The occident and the orient
Last Line: Dares climb the other?
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Long Island (n.y.); United States; America


COUNTING, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd walk close to buildings counting
Last Line: With the foul ball, waving for tv
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


DARK MORNING, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mom woke me. Power was out
Last Line: And the stinging smell of menthol
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes
Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


EASY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When mom screwed up the courage she drove to bohack's
Last Line: Freezer, vapor rolling out the sides and down her legs
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


FERRYMEN, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The parents in our town ferried us
Last Line: The good witch was good and the bad bad
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


GAY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Margie was a sprinter, fastest girl
Last Line: Stockings. Are you sure?
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


HAIRCUT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three old jewish men sit ahead of grandpa. One has a
Last Line: Is pat it and wish it well
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I opened my eyes
Last Line: Don't mock your mother
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


JACK NICKLAUS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father follows jack nicklaus
Last Line: Puts his finger to his lips %and says, shh
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


KEY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have memorized the coastline
Last Line: And whispered, this belongs to me
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


LAWYER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the outer office, there were mossy rugs with coffee stains
Last Line: Smiled again, showing all the tartar on her teeth
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


LAY IT DOWN, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brigit, I took a bus through your state
Last Line: I tell the man, but that sounds right
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


LIVING ALONE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You take the homeless guy
Last Line: Cooking as you climb the stairs
Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The things I did, I did because of trees
Last Line: And life in the upturned bellies of the fishkill in the creek.
Subject(s): Children; Long Island (n.y.); Mathematics; Memory; Childhood


LONG ISLAND, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As cars drive by on southern state parkway
Last Line: Speeding apart
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND, by MARCY S. POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The island's strange, it seems to me
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've spent the last few years with an eraser
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've spent the last few years with an eraser
Last Line: That looked like jewels were really roaches
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND PASTORAL, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again and again there is something to see
Last Line: The world as we think we know it, %images active in the constant sea
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND POEMS; 1. I WAS ALWAYS, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was always so careful about friends
Last Line: Each time letting blood
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND POEMS; 2. THE SNOW BOY, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He came from sunny california
Last Line: And he was light in your arms as you crunched %along the path
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND POEMS; 3. A LETTER TO CAMBRIDGE, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is just to let you know
Last Line: Nothing of you but a moment's thought
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown-skinned manhattan students take the train
Last Line: They bag their beer at pennsylvania station
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Railroads


LONG ISLAND SPRINGS, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long island springs not much went on
Last Line: Russian cossack horses leap across %the stone, the stone parentheses of years
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I suppose I could go on living on chinese food
Last Line: Walk in shivering, see if it feels like home
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


LOVE IN VEGAS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought money was love when you
Last Line: And hit the bed in one another's arms
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


MARY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I promise not to touch you if we pull
Last Line: And lay it back upon you like a blanket
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


MIDWAY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At least he knows when to get drunk
Last Line: Half the world is better than him %half worse
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


MRS. BRITT'S, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wore her black hair twisted around chopsticks, or
Last Line: Opened the door, got in, the car sinking with his weight %and drove us home
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


NAPLES, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come out the maze of alleys by the sea
Last Line: Up sauce with your bread. Delicious
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


NOBODY'S HELL, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the bus stop on the first frigid
Last Line: Someplace warm, someplace that is nobody's hell
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


NORTH FORK, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The humped, half-subterranean
Last Line: With their sometime chattels, %and whose memory too is now %worn down to stone
Variant Title(s): Paumono
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature


NORTHPORT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girl who fucked was margaret pritchard
Last Line: Good grades, staying out of rumors
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


NOT MY LIFE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her name was lisa, the fourth
Last Line: And know I will be old in a blink
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


ON THE ISLAND, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We issue from the meat of pineapple street
Last Line: As I can profit by a visit to %the fish-shaped island, population two
Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E.
Subject(s): Islands; Long Island (n.y.)


ONLY HOME, by CHARLES PIERRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Living on this shifting island
Last Line: Where the only home is another poem
Subject(s): Home; Long Island (n.y.); Poetry And Poets


OZYMANDIAS REVISITED, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a traveller from an antique land
Last Line: Of 17 west 4th street, oyster bay.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)


PARTNER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 2 a.M. I rode the subway to manhattan
Last Line: Ah got married today
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


PIG'S LUNGS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They only called it a dissection
Last Line: Going up our mouths, into our chests
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Pigs; Suburbs


PORT JEFFERSON, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My whole life coming to this place
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


PORT JEFFERSON, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My whole life coming to this place
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


PRAISE YOU HARRY GORDON, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Shirt, shoes, trousers, underpants, teeth
Subject(s): Cities; Long Island (n.y.); Mankind; Suburbs


RICE, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't know rice until I traded places with rusty and went next door to eat
Last Line: Husband and cleared her throat. Rusty just hung his head, like his brothers, and %chewed his mother'
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Rice; Suburbs


RONNY, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: During a heart attack, my favorite uncle
Last Line: And just enough money for a used camaro
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


SELF-PORTRAIT WITH RADIO, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A blue plastic radio on the table
Last Line: Him, his radio, his struggle for happiness
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


SHORT SONG, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The self is a ship in the bottle
Last Line: Or the way home
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


SLEEPING WITH GRANDPA, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath king-size bedclothes
Last Line: I think the pulling sheet %is his loose skin
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


SONNET: 3, 11, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long island! Yes! When first my vision swept
Last Line: Craftily quaint the tale he told to me.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


SONNET: 3, 12, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young silas long, a carrier through these woods
Last Line: Ran back, ten steps or more, and nothing found ...
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


SONNET: 3, 13, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! The dead pines and deersfoot on the ground
Last Line: Laid fire to his pipe and phewed away.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.)


SPLENDOR, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was fourteen reading rebecca
Last Line: By the sea was as blank as the green glass %of the shut off magnavox
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


STANDING UP STIFF, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I told my mom I hated her
Last Line: Standing up stiff
Subject(s): Absence; Children; Divorce; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


STARTING FROM PAUMANOK, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Starting from fish-shape paumanok where I was born
Last Line: O to haste firm holding -- to haste, haste on with me.
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Religion; Theology


SUCH A GOOD DANCER, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Desperate to be part of the night
Last Line: Such a good dancer
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue
Last Line: Long island keeps the devil.
Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails


THREE BLIND DATES, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: She has chosen a beautiful italian cafe
Last Line: All those relatives in concentration camps
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


TO THE LITTLE HOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear little house, dear shabby street
Last Line: But little queer suburban streets!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Home; Long Island (n.y.)


WALKING WOUNDED, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring came and we had to hide our boners
Last Line: And big, while she stroked and licked it?
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


WALLS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the suburbs our lives were seperated
Last Line: That couldn't even stay up in the head
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs


WHEREVER YOU WANT, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I said fuck you to my father for not paying child sup-
Last Line: To juice, smeared the rest back up again, and again, until it all dissolved
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs