Quotation by Gwendolyn Brooks

You have no word for soldiers to enjoy
The feel of, as an apple, and to chew
With masculine satisfaction. Not "good-by!"
"Come back!"or "careful!" Look, and let him go.
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), African American poet and fiction writer. "Gay Chaps at the Bar: looking," lines 1-4 (1945).
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