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Subject: STURGEON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DRIED STURGEON (VERSION A), by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb down from the bridge at rock island, illinois
Last Line: The big clamp of the boxcar, tapering into sleek %womanly death
Subject(s): Sturgeon


DRIED STURGEON (VERSION B), by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb down the bank at rock island, illinois, and cross
Last Line: And humorless as railway schedules or the big clamp of the %boxcar, tapering into sleek womanly deat
Subject(s): Sturgeon


STURGEON, by KATERI DAMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I twist and gasp
Last Line: I am a sturgeon %and I dangle on hooks
Subject(s): Sturgeon


THE DRIED STURGEON, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I climb down from the bridge at rock island, illinois
Last Line: Clamp of the box car, tapering into sleek woman's death
Subject(s): Sturgeon