{"id":76,"date":"2006-02-28T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-02-28T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T14:45:21","slug":"langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20060228-langston.jpg' width='130' height='183' alt='Langston Hughes' \/><\/div>\n<p>Because my mouth<br \/>\nIs wide with laughter<br \/>\n<!--more-->And my throat<br \/>\nIs deep with song, <br \/>\nYou do not think <br \/>\nI suffer after<br \/>\nI have held my pain<br \/>\nSo long?<\/p>\n<p>Because my mouth <br \/>\nIs wide with laughter, <br \/>\nYou do not hear<br \/>\nMy inner cry? <br \/>\nBecause my feet<br \/>\nAre gay with dancing, <br \/>\nYou do not know <br \/>\nI die?<\/p>\n<p>  \tDream Deferred<\/p>\n<p>  \tWhat happens to a dream deferred?<br \/>\nDoes it dry up<br \/>\nLike a raisin in the sun?<br \/>\nOr fester like a sore&#8211;<br \/>\nAnd then run?<br \/>\nDoes it stink like rotten meat?<br \/>\nOr crust and sugar over&#8211;<br \/>\nlike a syrupy sweet?<br \/>\nMaybe it just sags<br \/>\nlike a heavy load.<br \/>\nOr does it explode?<\/p>\n<p>\n  \tDinner Guest: Me<\/p>\n<p>  \tI know I am<br \/>\nThe Negro Problem<br \/>\nBeing wined and dined,<br \/>\nAnswering the usual questions<br \/>\nThat come to white mind<br \/>\nWhich seeks demurely<br \/>\nTo Probe in polite way<br \/>\nThe why and wherewithal<br \/>\nOf darkness U.S.A.&#8211;<br \/>\nWondering how things got this way<br \/>\nIn current democratic night,<br \/>\nMurmuring gently<br \/>\nOver fraises du bois,<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m so ashamed of being white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lobster is delicious,<br \/>\nThe wine divine,<br \/>\nAnd center of attention<br \/>\nAt the damask table, mine.<br \/>\nTo be a Problem on<br \/>\nPark Avenue at eight<br \/>\nIs not so bad.<br \/>\nSolutions to the Problem,<br \/>\nOf course, wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because my mouth Is wide with laughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}