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Dream Boogie

Good morning, daddy!

Ain't you

The boogie-woogie

Of a dream deferred?

Listen closely:

You'll hear their

Beating out and beating out a —You

It's a happy beat?

Listen to it closely:

Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a —What did I say?

Sure,

I'm happy!

Take it away!

Hey, pop!

Re-bop!

Mop!

Y-e-a-h!

Hughes himself says that the book from which this comes "Montage of a Dream Deferred" (1951) should be viewed as a complete poem in itself and not a collection of short poems.

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James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901[1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist fro…

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