The census man,
The day he came round,
Wanted my name
To put it down.
I said, JOHNSON,
ALBERTA K.
But he hated to write
The K that way.
He said, What
Does K stand for?
I said, K–
And nothing more.
He said, I’m gonna put it
K
(Langston Hughes)
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