Tired | Langston Hughes, 1931-41

Wang Nigde, 2009

I am so tired of waiting,

Aren't you,

For the world to become good

And beautiful and kind?

Let us take a knife

And cut the world in two-

And see what worms are eating

At the rind.

Langston Hughes, Tired, 1931-41

Also:

Langston Hughes / The Big Sea (1940)

The first book of jazz (1955) / Langston Hughes & Cliff Roberts