QUESTION [1]
When the old junk man Death
Comes to gather up our bones
And toss them into the sack of oblivion
I wonder if he will find
The corpse of a white multi-milionaire
Worth more pennies of Eternity
Than the black torso of
A Negro cotton-picker.
- Langston Hughes
A quiet message to the Governor
of the State of Georgia...
Wow, good choice of poem. Very succinct. I'm not a big poetry maven, but every once in a while one really gets to me in the right place at the right time, like this.
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