Wednesday, June 11, 2008

A Dream Deferred...

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?


A poetry by Langston Hughes, inscribed on the glass at Aviation LAX Green line station.

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