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Aug 2012
i don’t wait for nothin’
i see what’s comin’
ain’t no better than yesterday
when i made the mistake
of waitin’ for today
thinkin’ that familiar heartbreak
might take a sorry vacation
from my bones and soul
but today came
like some devil i knew
but couldn’t name
and here i be again
waitin’
Inspired by Langston Hughes and a photograph by my friend from the UK, Jim Mortram--the photo is of a African American man standing, waiting...
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