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KittyWampus

(55,894 posts) Mon Apr 27, 2015, 10:47 PM Apr 2015

What happens to a dream deferred?

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?

Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from Collected Poems.

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What happens to a dream deferred? (Original Post) KittyWampus Apr 2015 OP

I have always loved his work. Because he is so right. jwirr Apr 2015 #1

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

1. I have always loved his work. Because he is so right.

Reply to KittyWampus (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2015, 11:06 PM

Apr 2015

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