Harlem
Sent him home
in a long box-
Too dead
To know why:
The licker
Was lye.
(Langston Hughes)
More Poetry from Langston Hughes:
- Advertisemen (Langston Hughes Poems)
- Cultural Exchange (Langston Hughes Poems)
- Brass Spittoons (Langston Hughes Poems)
- Trumpet Player (Langston Hughes Poems)
- The Ballad Of The Landlord (Langston Hughes Poems)
- Sylvester's Dying Bed (Langston Hughes Poems)