A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon by Gwendolyn Brooks
That boy must have been surprised! For
These were grown-ups. Grown-ups were supposed to be wise.
[…]
Grown! Perhaps the boy had never guessed
That the trouble with grown-ups was that under the magnificent
shell of adulthood, just under,
Waited the baby full of tantrums.
