The Weary Blues/Poem-For the Portrait of an African Boy

by James Mercer Langston Hughes

POEM

For the portrait of an African boy after the manner of Gauguin

All the tom-toms of the jungles beat in my blood,
And all the wild hot moons of the jungles shine in my soul.
I am afraid of this civilization—
So hard,
So strong,
So cold.

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