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Lucille Clifton: children
when they ask...

Source: DRAMATISTS

children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don't have no sense.

Source: Admonitions, Good Times.
-- Lucille Clifton, (Jun 27 1936-2010), US poet, educator; She has written more than twenty books for children and adults, one of which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.


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