I read both We Cool as well as The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks. The reason I read both, other than I was interested by both titles, was because the prior assumption I made when reading We Cool, was that I would understand the piece with the first run through. And full transparency, I felt as if I SHOULD understand because I am a voracious reader of poems, lol.
The lines “we sing sin, we thin gin” I didn’t quite understand and I still don’t understand what ‘thin gin’ is. I will look it up after I finish responding to this discussion, but I assumed it has something to do with hanging out and drinking. After reading the poem once again, a little slower and without the assumptions, I gathered the meaning of the poem. I then, liked the writing and Gwendolyn’s writing style. I also learned she does not have one style from reading both pieces.
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Hi Tracey, I too read we real cool and was having a hard time to really understand he picture until I read it over and over a few times then finally understood that its simply kids being kids. I will definetly give her other poem a chance to read. As for the line “we thin gin” I think its simply that they drank alcohol. However, I don’t know why use the word “thin” as drink lol.