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After reading that post, I commented to Marie (littlefairy) that Langston Hughes was one of my favorite contemporary poets, and that my favorite poem of his was Daybreak in Alabama.
She commented back, asking me if I could post that poem for her. So, I posted it on my Blogster site along with a poem that I had written after being inspired by it.
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Daybreak in Alabama
    by Langston Hughes
When I get to be a composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama
And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist
And falling out of heaven like soft dew.
I'm gonna put tall trees in it
And the scent of pine needles
And the smell of red clay after rain
And long red necks
And poppy colored faces
And big brown arms
And the field daisy eyes
Of black and white black white black people
And I'm gonna put white hands
And black hands and brown and yellow hands
And red clay earth hands in it
Touching everybody with kind fingers
And touching each other natural as dew
In that dawn of music when I
Get to be a composer
And write about daybreak
In Alabama.
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Here’s To Youse, Mr. Hughes
Gonna get me a geetar
and gonna make it whine
the goddamnedest, beautifulest
breath a body ever felt.
Gonna play a smile on your face
and a blush on your cheek.
Gonna play what you are
right now.
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Gonna tear your humanly heart to peaces
and vibrate a mess of melodic memories.
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Gonna get me in a combo
with the sun on drums
and stars on the keys
and we’ll play my life
which is your life
which is our life
which is everydamnbuddy’s life
and we’ll play for
us and you and everydamnbuddy
for free
right here..