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Subject: TOMATOES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LAUGHING TOMATOES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In our backyard
Last Line: Christmas trees %in spring
Subject(s): Tomatoes


ODE TO TOMATOES, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They make %friends
Last Line: First asking %their blessings!
Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Tomatoes


THE TRYST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Potato was deep in the dark under ground
Last Line: Till they met in a brunswick stew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Potatoes; Tomatoes


TOMATO, by KATHA POLLIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the female fruit: the plush
Last Line: Secret murderous teeth
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Tomatoes


VESPERS (9), by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: End of august. Heat
Last Line: No hope %of enduring? Blaze of the red cheek, glory %of the open throat, white, %spotted with crimso
Subject(s): Absence; Tomatoes


WINTER PROMISES, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks,
Subject(s): Winter; Tomatoes; Promises