Loosed Words: Having said good-bye to the old queen...
Night Funeral In Harlemby - Langston Hughes
Night funeral
- In Harlem:
Where did they get
Them two fine cars?
His insurance lapsed the other day--
Yet they got a satin box
for his head to lay.
- Night funeral
In Harlem:
Who was it sent
That wreath of flowers?
from that poor boy's friends--
They'll want flowers, too,
When they meet their ends.
- Night funeral
in Harlem:
Who preached that
Black boy to his grave?
Preached that boy away--
Charged Five Dollars
His girl friend had to pay.
- Night funeral
In Harlem:
And the lid shut on his head
and the organ had done played
and the last prayers been said
and six pallbearers
Carried him out for dead
And off down Lenox Avenue
That long black hearse done sped,
- The street light
At his corner
Shined just like a tear--
Was so dear, so dear
To them folks that brought the flowers,
To that girl who paid the preacher man--
It was all their tears that made
- That poor boy's
Funeral grand.
Night funeral
In Harlem.
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