Dream Deferred

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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?

— Langston Hughes

One thought on “Dream Deferred”

  1. like a sweet potato cooked too long in the micro-wave. oh dear!

    because it’s my birthday, and the white wine told me so.

    love you,
    your other patti

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