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We Real Cool

Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We
Left School. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.




Quotes of the Day

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
• Judith Viorst


Poems of the Day
  • Charles Bukowski
    A Challenge To The Dark
    by Charles Bukowski
    shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death wins hands down amazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of life