Answer:The fact that these elements are all so short reflects and stresses the brevity of the speakers' lives.
Explanation:The African American poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, published “We Real Cool” in her 1960 collection of poems, titled "The Bean Eaters." In the "We Real Cool" poem, the poet describes some teenagers who are always hanging out at a pool hall, doing nothing meaningful with their lives. According to the poet, the poem was an imaginative narrative of teenagers who had proudly decided to defy social authority, norms, and conventions at a time they were supposed to be in school.