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Gwendolyn Brooks -
Annie Allen (1949)
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What shall I give my children? who are poor,
Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land.
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And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear him
After so lengthy a
Session with shade?
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We do not want them to have less.
But it is only natural that we should think we have not enough.
We drive on, we drive on.
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People like definite decisions,
Tidy answers, all the little ravelings
Snipped off, the lint removed, they
Hop happily among their roughs
Calling what they can't clutch insanity
Or saintliness.
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There are no magics or elves
Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must
Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born:
June 7, 1917
Died:
December 3, 2000
(aged 83)
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