"Winter's name is Hawkins" in Langston Hughes

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Jonathon Green, not Jonathan. Sorry about that. It was lunch hour. Thousands of parking tickets will do that to you.

This is from Literature Online. It's in the poem, line 422. Date?...I'll probably check out the Chicago (Daily) Defender at NYPL's Harlem library on Saturday.


Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. [Author Page]
ASK YOUR MAMA 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ  95Kb , [from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes: Arnold Rampersad, Editor: David Roessel, Associate Editor (1995), Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.] [Durable URL for this text]
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HORN OF PLENTY 10Kb 10Kb
...¢ WHERE WINTER'S NAME IS HAWKINS           ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ AND NIAGARA...


HORN OF PLENTY
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396      SINGERS                                                                                          TACIT
397      SINGERS LIKE O-
398      SINGERS LIKE ODETTA---AND THAT STATUE [End note: 1Kb]
399      ON BEDLOE'S ISLAND MANAGED BY SOL HUROK [End note: 1Kb]
400      DANCERS BOJANGLES LATE LAMENTED       $ $ $ $
401      KATHERINE DUNHAM AL AND LEON           $ $ $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
402      ARTHUR CARMEN ALVIN MARY          $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
403      JAZZERS DUKE AND DIZZY ERIC DOLPHY        $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
404      MILES AND ELLA AND MISS NINA          $ $ $ $ $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
405      STRAYHORN HIS BACKSTAGE WITH LUTHER     $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
406      DO YOU READ MUSIC? AND LOUIS SAYING          $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
407      NOT ENOUGH TO HURT MY PLAYING            $ $ $ $ $
408      GOSPEL SINGERS WHO PANT TO PACK          $ $ $ $
409      GOLDEN CROSSES TO A CADILLAC          $ $ $ $ $ $
410      BONDS AND STILL AND MARGARET STILL          $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
411      GLOBAL TROTTERS BASEBALL BATTERS         $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
412      JACKIE WILLIE CAMPANELLA           $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
413      FOOTBALL PLAYERS LEATHER PUNCHERS      $ $ $
414      UNFORGOTTEN JOES AND SUGAR RAYS        $ $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]

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415      WHO BREAK AWAY LIKE COMETS            $ $ $ $ $ $
416      FROM LESSER STARS IN ORBIT               $ $ $ $ $ $ $
417      TO MOVE OUT TO ST. ALBANS             $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ [End note: 1Kb]
418      WHERE THE GRASS IS GREENER              $ $ $ $ $ $ $
419      SCHOOLS ARE BETTER FOR THEIR CHILDREN      $
420      AND OTHER KIDS LESS MEANER THAN         ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
421      IN THE QUARTER OF THE NEGROES            ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
422      WHERE WINTER'S NAME IS HAWKINS           ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
423      AND NIAGARA FALLS IS FROZEN            ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
424      IF SHOW FARE'S MORE THAN 30           ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢                      "Hesitation
425                                                                                                                        Blues" 8 bars.

426      I MOVED OUT TO LONG ISLAND                                                     TACIT
427      EVEN FARTHER THAN ST. ALBANS
428      (WHICH LATELY IS STONE NOWHERE)
429      I MOVED OUT EVEN FARTHER FURTHER FARTHER
430      ON THE SOUND WAY OFF THE TURNPIKE---
431      AND I'M THE ONLY COLORED.

432      GOT THERE! YES, I MADE IT!
433      NAME IN THE PAPERS EVERY DAY!
434      FAMOUS---THE HARD WAY---
435      FROM NOBODY AND NOTHING TO WHERE I AM.
436      THEY KNOW ME, TOO, DOWNTOWN,
437      ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, EUROPE---
438      ME WHO USED TO BE NOBODY,
439      NOTHING BUT ANOTHER SHADOW
440      IN THE QUARTER OF THE NEGROES,
441      NOW A NAME! MY NAME---A NAME!

442      YET THEY ASKED ME OUT ON MY PATIO
443      WHERE DID I GET MY MONEY!

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444      I SAID, FROM YOUR MAMA!                                                  Figurine.
445      THEY WONDERED WAS I SENSITIVE
446      AND HAD A CHIP ON MY SHOULDER?
447      DID I KNOW CHARLIE MINGUS? [End note: 1Kb]
448      AND WHY DID RICHARD WRIGHT [End note: 1Kb]
449      LIVE ALL THAT WHILE IN PARIS
450      INSTEAD OF COMING HOME TO DECENT DIE
451      IN HARLEM OR THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO
452      OR THE WOMB OF MISSISSIPPI?
453      AND ONE SHOULD LOVE ONE'S COUNTRY
454      FOR ONE'S COUNTRY IS YOUR MAMA.

455      LIVING IN ST. ALBANS
456      SHADOW OF THE NEGROES
457      WESTPORT AND NEW CANAAN [End note: 1Kb]
458      IN THE SHADOW OF THE NEGROES---
459      HIGHLY INTEGRATED
460      MEANS TOO MANY NEGROES
461      EVEN FOR THE NEGROES---
462      ESPECIALLY FOR THE FIRST ONES
463      WHO MOVE IN UNOBTRUSIVE                                            Gently
464      BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH IN CASES                                        yearning
465      SEEKING SUBURB WITH NO JUKEBOX                              lieder
466      POOL HALL OR BAR ON CORNER                                       on
467      SEEKING LAWNS AND SHADE TREES                                piano
468      SEEKING PEACE AND QUIET                                                delicately
469      AUTUMN LEAVES IN AUTUMN                                            sedate,
470      HOLLAND BULBS IN SPRING                                                quietly
471      DECENT GARBAGE SERVICE                                                fading
472      BIRDS THAT REALLY SING                                                    on the
473      $40,000 HOUSES---                                                                    word

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474      PAYMENTS NOT BELATED---                                                belated....
475      THE ONLY NEGROES IN THE BLOCK                                  TACIT
476      INTEGRATED.

477      HORN OF PLENTY                                                                     Again
478      IN ESCROW TO JOE GLASSER. [End note: 1Kb]                     the old
479      THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT                                              "Hesitation
480      IN BILLINGTON'S CHURCH OF RUBBER. [End note: 1Kb]   Blues"
481      LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF                                      against the
482      IN GEORGE SOKOLSKY'S COLUMN. [End note: 1Kb]          trills
483      BIRDS THAT REALLY SING.                                                     of birds,
484      EVERY DAY'S TOMORROW                                                     but the
485      AND ELECTION TIME                                                                melody
486      IS ALWAYS FOUR YEARS                                                         ends in
487      FROM THE OTHER                                                                      a thin
488      AND MY LAWN MOWER                                                           high
489      NEW AND SHINY                                                                        flute call.
490      FROM THE BIG GLASS SHOPPING CENTER
491      CUTS MY HAIR ON CREDIT.

492      THEY RUNG MY BELL TO ASK ME                                          TACIT
493      COULD I RECOMMEND A MAID.
494      I SAID, YES, YOUR MAMA.                                                        Figurine.



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