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Poem by Langston Hughes


Prize Fighter


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.



Langston Hughes


Langston Hughes's other poems:
  1. For Selma
  2. Children's Rhymes
  3. Sea Calm
  4. Song for a Dark Girl
  5. Park Bench


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