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Countee Cullen, "For a Fool" (1925)

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On earth the wise man makes the rules,
   And is the fool's adviser,
But here the wise are as the fools,
   (And no man is the wiser).

Published in Color, 1925
Also published in Poetry Magazine, May 1925

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