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A dreamed deferred

December 11, 2008
By Anonymous

Modeled after the poem by Langston Huges

Manhattan

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it snap at you

Like a crazed dog?

Or circle over head like a black cloud-

And then bite you?

Does it hit like a linebacker?

Or flee-

Like a rabbit?

Maybe it just runs

Like a cross country runner

Or does it make life a blur?


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