We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

                  THE POOL PLAYERS. 
                   SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

From The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: American Poets Project (Library of America, 2005)