"Harlem" 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 the run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sigar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?



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