This peom is called We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading this poem makes me think of teenagers out of control. I interpret it as teenagers doing everything they are not supposed to be doing. They are skipping school, they stay out late, they cause trouble, they drink, they have sex. Everything about this poem is rebellion to me, and the reader says by doing these things that they shortening their life with the line at the end of the poem," We Die soon." All of the things they are doing is leading up to an earlier death. Maybe suggesting these things are not so great to be doing? Are they really cool if they die soon?
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