Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JAM SESSION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES


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First Line: Letting midnight / out on bail
Last Line: Pop-a-da
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks


Letting midnight
out on bail
pop-a-da
having been
detained in jail
oop-pop-a-da
for sprinkling salt
on a dreamer's tail
pop-a-da





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