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Harlem (By Langston Hughes)

By theghostservant on January 19, 2014 4:16 pm

Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up
      like a raisin in the sun?
      Or fester like a sore—
      And then run?
      Does it stink like rotten meat?
      Or crust and sugar over—
      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags
      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?

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Poetry set to noise. It works surprisingly well.
I'll probably do a couple of these through out the year.

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