Poem by Langston Hughes

Children's Rhymes

By what sends
The white kids
I ain't sent:
I know I can't
Be President.
What don't bug
Them white kids
Sure bugs me:
We know everybody
Ain't free.

Lies written down
For white folks
Ain't for us a-tall:
Liberty And Justice;
Huh! For All!

1. Catch
2. Dream Deferred
3. Kids Who Die
4. Jazzonia
5. Sylvester’s Dying Bed

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