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PREFERENCE by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES

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First Line: I LIKES A WOMAN SIX OR EIGHT AND TEN YEARS OLDER'N MYSELF
Last Line: WHEN SHE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU %IT AIN'T FOREVER, GIMME!
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; LOVE - AGE DIFFERENCES;

Poem Sources:

THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN VERSE.
  ELLMANN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1976)
 
HARVARD BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY.
  VENDLER, HELEN (ED.)
  (1985)
 
SELECTED POEMS.
  HUGHES, LANGSTON
  (1990)
 
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES.
  HUGHES, LANGSTON
  (1994)
 
POEMS. SELECTED AND EDITED BY DAVID ROESSEL.
  HUGHES, LANGSTON
  (1999)
 



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