The Bean Eaters Lyrics
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day.
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And remembering ...
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room
That is full of beads and receipts and dolls
And cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day.
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And remembering ...
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room
That is full of beads and receipts and dolls
And cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Annie Allen (1950). She was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now known as U.S. Poet Laureate) in 1985.
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