Lorraine Hansberry - Act 1 : Scene 1 lyrics

The younger living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contradictions to this state of being. It's furnishings are typical and undistinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years- and they are tired. Still, we can see that at some time, a time probably no longer remembered by the family ( except perhaps for MAMA), the furnishings of this room were actually selected apartment and arranged with taste and pride. That was a long time ago. Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselves finally come to be more important than the upholstery. And here a table or a chair has been moved to disguise the worn places in the carpet; but the carpet has fought back by showing its weariness, with depressing uniformity, elsewhere on its surface. Weariness has, in fact, won in this room. Everything has been polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too