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Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes (Poetry Reading)

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Uploaded by on Mar 15, 2010

Read by Rodney Russ

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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  • While this is a great poem, I didn't particularly enjoy this reading

  • thank you for posting this reading.

  • the best

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