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Deceased

Langston Hughes

Harlem
Sent him home
in a long box-
Too dead
To know why:
The licker
Was lye.


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    A Picture
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    I strolled last eve across the lonely down; One solitary picture struck my eye: A distant ploughboy stood against the sky- How far he seemed above the noisy town! Upon the bosom of a cloud the sod