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Langston Hughes
1902-1967

"Harlem –
A Dream Deferred"

(1951)

 
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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