Poetry in Motion - Langston Hughes

Luck Langston Hughes

Sometimes a crumb falls
From the tables of joy,
Sometimes a bone
Is flung.

To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only heaven.

From the Collected Poems of Langston Hughs
Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel
Copyright © 1947 by Langston Hughes
Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

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