Gwendolyn Brooks Never Poems
- 1. Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind
What do you think of us in fuzzy endeavor, you whose directions are
sterling, whose lunge is straight?
... - 2. The Life Of Lincoln West
Ugliest little boy
that everyone ever saw.
That is what everyone said.
... - 3. The Mother
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
... - 4. The Lovers Of The Poor
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League
Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
... - 5. The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
Rudolph Reed was oaken.
His wife was oaken too.
And his two good girls and his good little man
Oakened as they grew.
... - 6. When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story
â??And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,
And most especially when you have forgotten Sundayâ??
When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed,
Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoon
... - 7. Mayor Harold Washington
Mayor. Worldman. Historyman.
Beyond steps that occur and close,
your steps are echo-makers.
... - 8. The Sermon On The Warpland
â??The fact that we are black
is our ultimate reality.â?
â??Ron Karenga
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