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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?
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Reprinted
by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. Copyright
© 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
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