Cento: Lines From Gwendolyn Brooks
I am very hungry. I am incomplete,
little as a drop from grand,
unscrewed, released, no more to be marvelous
in solitude, without a hand to hold,
to bear enormous business all alone
and the fear that strikes and strives
when the desert terrifies,
all bright, all bestial, snarling marvelously
to fail, to flourish, to wither, or to win,
and I ride, ride, ride, on to the end.
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