Langston and I
By Tim Lennox
I dreamed I loved & lived near Langston Hughes,
and offered him a word change.
He thought it over, tried it out aloud,
and silently agreed.
Imagine!
MY word in his work,
on his tongue!
As I awoke:
He lived in Harlem, I in Queens.
He died the day before I turned 17
(not yet learning
even that he existed).
I woke much too late.
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