The poet herself is the first speaker. The second speaker is the actor Morgan Freeman.<br>We Real Cool<br>By Gwendolyn Brooks<br>THE POOL PLAYERS. <br>SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.<br>We real cool. We<br>Left school. We<br>Lurk late. We<br>Strike straight. We<br>Sing sin. We<br>Thin gin. We<br>Jazz June. We<br>Die soon.<br>We Real Cool, written in 1959, was published in the 1960 book titled The Bean Eaters, Brooks third collection of poems.
