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Prize Fighter

Langston Hughes

Only dumb guys fight.
If I wasn't dumb
I wouldn't be fightin'.
I could make six dollars a day
On the docks
And I'd save more than I do now.
Only dumb guys fight.




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Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
• Job 34:4


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