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Subject: THAILAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADAM AND HIS FATHER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adam's father, always a good provider
Last Line: "perhaps what I have always wanted is to want."
Subject(s): Desire; Fathers & Sons; Thailand; Travel; Journeys; Trips


ALIEN WOMEN; SONGKHLA, THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun-blind in the pharmacy's dim light
Last Line: Back into the sun's fistful of blades.
Subject(s): Intermarriage; Marriage; Shopping; Thailand; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps the polluted air
Last Line: Still he's optimistic.
Subject(s): Americans; Culture Conflict; Ignorance; Thailand; Dullness; Stupdity


BACKGROUND AND DESIGN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tv in a bangkok shop window
Last Line: From fiend to lover and back.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Music & Musicians; Thailand


FISHERMAN IN SONGKHLA, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His mirror shines back with approval, god's
Last Line: Palms open in the gesture of forgiveness.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thailand


FOOD STALL, BANGKOK, by ALOHA DIAO LAVINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On dishwater wet concrete, crouched
Last Line: Through which we see, through which we wade
Subject(s): Bangkok, Thailand


GETTING A PURCHASE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoring? I guess I thought it was part
Last Line: I can send a small check from time to time.
Subject(s): Love; Prostitution; Thailand; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 3. THAILALND, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His eyes were made green in
Last Line: His within this citadel.
Subject(s): Children; Thailand; Childhood


PARADYS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of paradys ne can not I speken propurly
Last Line: If ever we desire to enter. %chiang mai thailand
Subject(s): Museums; Thailand; Tourists; Travel


POLYGAMY, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When an official goes upcountry
Last Line: His name green as unreaped fantasy.
Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Polygamy; Thailand; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards


STEPS IN COMPOSITION: FOUR STUDENTS, by DIANE AVERILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I %three years I spend in thailand refugee camp
Last Line: Now, see if you can start a new paragraph
Subject(s): Grammar; Refugees; Schools; Thailand


THE GHOST, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woodsmoke guides us through the mist
Last Line: Wept as though he'd met his future's ghost.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists


THE GUIDE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He leads us to our village destination
Last Line: The culture with the most things wins.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists


THE LANDLADY IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because, separated from us by a language
Last Line: From samsara to nirvana.
Subject(s): Hotels; Landlords & Tenants; Thailand; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THREE SILENCES IN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the mekong's silt-thick flow
Last Line: I bear no offering but the abstinence of silence.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Silence; Thailand


TREKKING THE HILLS OF NORTHERN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The english girl is being sick in the bushes
Last Line: That there always be other hills.
Subject(s): Thailand; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips