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I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

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We real cool / by Gwendolyn Brooks. Detroit, Michigan : Broadside Press, 1966.

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Gwendolyn Brooks·1917–2000
      b   WE REAL COOL BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS The Pool Players Seven at the Golden Shovel   WE REAL COOL. WE WE LEFT SCHOOL. WE WE LURK LATE. WE WE STRIKE STRAIGHT. WE WE SING SIN. WE WE THIN GIN. WE JAZZ JUNE. WE WE DIE SOON.  Designed by Cledie Taylor “We Real Cool” from Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Copyright © 1959 by Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely Reprinted by permission of the author and Harper & Row, Publishers BROADSIDE No. 6. December 1966 BROADSIDE PRESS, 12651 OLD MILL PLACE, DETROIT, MICHIGAN 48238  Him