Tired

Tired.

August 19, 2021

“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

 

 

[Beinecke Library, rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.]