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And that is what poetry may do, wrap up your dreams, protect and preserve and hold them until maybe they come true. Columbus dreamed of finding a new world, he found it. Edison dreamed ...
Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal… It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,
Where is the Jim Crow section On this merry—go—round, Mister, cause I want to ride? Down South where I come from White and colored
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow… I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other ni… By the pale dull pallor of an old…
Big Boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the mermaid Had her tail
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple f… You are my son!
I take my dreams and make of them… and a round fountain with a beauti… And a song with a broken heart and… Do you understand my dreams? Sometimes you say you do,
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
'Me an’ ma baby’s Got two mo’ ways, Two mo’ ways to do de Charleston!… Da, da, Da, da, da!
been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done
Harlem Sent him home in a long box— Too dead To know why:
My name is Johnson— Madam Alberta K. The Madam stands for business. I’m smart that way. I had a
To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening
Listen! Dear dream of utter aliveness— Touching my body of utter death— Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliv… The flaming source of your bright…