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I'm debating.

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This poem is a golden shovel.

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It's a form that Terrance
Hayes developed in homage

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to Gwendolyn Brooks.

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I think, mainly, it's
the idea that you

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must write a poem in which
all of the end words--

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you pick a line from
Gwendolyn Brooks' work.

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And then the end
words of your poem

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have to spell out that line.

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And the line from Gwendolyn
Brooks' work that I took

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is, "you kiss all the
great-lipped girls

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that you can."

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"From the Sidelines"

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"It seems I have always
sat here watching men

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like you, who turn
heads, whose gaze is

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either a kiss, or a slap, or
the whiplash of pure disregard.

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Why fret?

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All you're doing is walking.

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You're this year's it, the
one righteous integer of cool,

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cruising down a great-lipped
channel of hushed adoration.

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Women turned girls
again, brightening

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in spite of themselves.

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That brave wilting smile,
you don't see it, do you?

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How she tells herself to move
on, blinks, until she can."

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