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Dream Deferred
Name: Dream Deferred
Written By: Langston Hughes
Published Date: 1951
Language: English
Words: 51
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Dream Deferred

by Langston Hughes


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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