"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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