
Langston Hughes
(February 1, 1902-1967)
Sign: Aquarius
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
Cafe: 3 A.M
Detectives from the vice squad
with weary sadistic eyes
spotting fairies.
Degenerates,
some folks say.
But God, Nature,
or somebody
made them that way.
Police lady or Lesbian
over there?
Where?

Harlem Sweeties
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