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Deceased

Langston Hughes

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




Quotes of the Day

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
• Bette Davis


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    Froze by Winter Blast
    by Joan Houlihan
    Froze by winter blast us could not grip on meat or crust, our fingers blackened down to all the hand. and so were fewer count of us coming into weather, loosened snow, water falling down around the ...