<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/afc469ba-8ab9-4c74-97f0-bfe36717903d/A52851A5-7A3B-4A21-9EF2-D0A7A9286B86/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=17315" href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=17315" style="font-size: 11px;">www.poetryfoundation.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=17315"><DIV class="bodycopy"> <IMG width="400" vspace="10" hspace="0" height="20" alt="Archive" src="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/images/titles/archive.gif" /><BR /> <H1>We Real Cool </H1> <DIV class="author">by Gwendolyn Brooks </DIV> <I></I><CENTER>The Pool Players. <BR />Seven at the Golden Shovel.<I></I></CENTER><BR /> <DIV class="bodycopy">We real cool. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Left school. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Lurk late. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Strike straight. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Sing sin. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Thin gin. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Jazz June. We </DIV> <DIV class="bodycopy">Die soon.</DIV> <DIV class="cright"><FONT color="#777777"><DIV> Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” from <I>Selected Poems.</I> Copyright © 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Gwendolyn Brooks.</DIV> Source: <I>Poetry</I> (September 1959). </FONT></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A52851A5-7A3B-4A21-9EF2-D0A7A9286B86/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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