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Langston Hughes

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I was so sick last night I
Didn't hardly know my mind.
So sick last night I
Didn't know my mind.
I drunk some bad licker that
Almost made me blind.
--
"Morning After," (l. 1-6), from Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)

 
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