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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Question [1]


              1When the old junk man Death
              2Comes to gather up our bodies
              3And toss them into the sack of oblivion,
              4I wonder if he will find
              5The corpse of a white multi-millionaire
              6Worth more pennies of eternity,
              7Than the black torso of
              8A Negro cotton-picker?


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: The Weary Blues (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926). PS H874w Victoria College Library.
First publication date: March 1922
Publication date note: Crisis (March 1922): 210
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/7

Rhyme: unrhyming


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