Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WAKE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES


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First Line: Tell all my mourners
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red--
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.





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