What mannerisms I present, employ, Are camouflage, and what… - Gwendolyn Brooks

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What mannerisms I present, employ,
Are camouflage, and what my mouths remark
To word-wall off that broadness of the dark
Is pitiful,
I am not brave at all.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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poetry poem bravery

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About Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000) was an American poet. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her book of poems Annie Allen.

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Alternative Names: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks

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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.

We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray.

Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.

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