tma+Die+soon.

The poem "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks is confusing, but I think I understand the literal meaning. This poem is saying that everyone thinks of "cool kids" as being the ones who leave school, stay out late, and drink alcohol. " We Lurk late ," is a line from the second stanza that is saying it is cool to stay out late. Gwendolyn Brooks is saying this as an analogy, not literally. His point is that, staying out late does not make you cool, along with everything else he says in the poem. The last line of the poem is, " We Die soon." This supports my point, because if you stay out late, drink alcohol, and speak sins, you are prone to dying sooner, which does not make you cool. The author is stressing her point by trying to say do not just follow what people think is "cool", because it leads to a quicker death. "We Real Cool ", is a great poem since it can teach kids a lesson that being what people call "cool" is not actually "cool".