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Poem by Langston Hughes


Deceased


Harlem
Sent him home
in a long box-
Too dead
To know why:

The licker
Was lye.



Langston Hughes


Langston Hughes's other poems:
  1. Sea Calm
  2. My People
  3. Song for a Dark Girl
  4. Personal
  5. Jazzonia


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