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Langston Hughes

Big Boy came
Carrying a mermaid
On his shoulders
And the mermaid
Had her tail
Curved
Beneath his arm.
Being a fisher boy,
He'd found a fish
To carry-
Half fish,
Half girl
To marry.




Quotes of the Day

History shows us that when religion and science have a scuffle, religion either is reinterpreted, backs down, or is destroyed.
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  • Walt Whitman
    at Weeping Face.
    by Walt Whitman
    WHAT weeping face is that looking from the window? Why does it stream those sorrowful tears? Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves?