Gwendolyn Brooks: The Crazy Woman

I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.

I'll wait until November
That is the time for me.
I'll go out in the frosty dark
And sing most terribly.
And all the little people
Will stare at me and say,
"That is the Crazy Woman
Who would not sing in May."

Gwendolyn Brooks "The Crazy Woman" is about a woman that waits to a sing a song that is sad... but she is unwilling to sing it in a happy month, May. In November, a sad month, she will sing it most terribly. This poem also describes how she does not care what others think of her. She knows that people think she is crazy, but brushes that fact off to the side. She knows that if she loves to do it it wouldnt really matter about everything else that is going on.