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Quotation by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Even now she does the snake-hips with a hiss,
Slops the bad wine across her shantung, talks
Of pregnancy, guitars and bridgework, walks
In parks or alleys, comes haply on the verge
Of happiness, haply hysterics. Is.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. The Womanhood (l. 4–8). . .
Women Poets in English, The; an Anthology. Ann Stanford, ed. (1972) McGraw-Hill Book Company.
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