在一生的 Weblog 看到她介 Gwendolyn Brooks 的 ”We Real Cool” 了一句：「是一首一定要出的，多年前上，到YV 的版本，至今深刻忘。」生就是 Yvette 的白目胞胎，在在美也收了一日本家教生，正在教她英文。前天收到她的卡片，分享她的教感。真安慰！
Yvette 去年教首的候跟生提到：「有人 June 是一女孩的名字，而不是月份名字。」於是在期末考就得到了上答案。我看到 ”We jazz June.” 只剩「十八禁」的候，只能佩服新系的男生！
Yvette 才要 Brooks 自己的版本上去留言，白目胞胎做得更底。在它，希望她不介意打字被用。
(特再度介好得不得了的好站:
www.poets.org)
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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
在上找到人自己的版本，激不已。一起，把整Audio Clip 成Transcript，要大家享用。
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433From The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks, published by Harpers.
1960 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Audio Clip
May 03, 1983
Guggenhiem Museum
From the Academy Audio Archive
Brooks: Thank you. I guess I better offer you “We Real Cool.” Most
young people know me all may by that poem. I don’t mean that I
dislike it, but I would prefer it as the textbook compilers and the
embologists(?) would assume that I’ve written a few other poems. I
wrote it because I was passing by a pool hall in my community one
afternoon during school time, and I saw they’re in, a little bunch
of boys I say here in this poem, seven, and they were shooting pool.
But instead of asking myself, “Why aren’t they in school?” I
asked myself. “I wonder how they feel about themselves?” And just
perhaps they might have considered themselves contemptuous of the
establishmentalists. They wanted to feel they were contemptuous of
the establishment might want to bump their noses at the
establishment. And I represent this establishment with the month
June which was nice, gentle, non-controversial and joyable,
pleasant, fragrant month that everybody loves. This poem has been
banned here and there because of the word Jazz, which some people
have considered sexual reference. That was not my intention, but I
have no objection if it helps everybody. But I was thinking of
music.
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