ext_114197 ([identity profile] ravengirl.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry2008-06-25 03:49 pm
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A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up
  like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore--
  and then run?

  Does it stink like rotten meat?
  Or crust and sugar over--
  like a syrupy sweet?

  Maybe it just sags
  like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

 

Langston Hughes
"A Dream Deferred"

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