Hughes Corner: 50-50

Since the death of the Angelou Corner, I’ve struggled to find a poet I like enough to have as a permanent monthly fixture on this blog. I through many a name, I tried to pick based on gender then race, age then relevance and no one struck me hard enough to leave a lasting impression. I finally decided to combine my selection criteria and ended up with Langston Hughes; a black poet and author born in 1902 and died in 1967.

Hope you guys will enjoy him as much as I am right now.  

I’m all alone in this world, she said
Ain’t got nobody to share my bed
Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand—
The truth of the matter’s
I ain’t got no man.

Big Boy opened his mouth and said
Trouble with you is
You ain’t got no head!
If you had a head and used your mind
You could have me with you
All the time.

She answered, Babe, what must I do?

He said, Share your bed—
And your money, too.

Current Read: The Thing Around Your Neck

A collection of stories by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the thing around your neck published in 2009 and highly revered. The book features a collection of 12 stories ranging in topic from love, violence to faith and the human spirit. With this in mind, I hope to fall head over heels with not just the book but, it’s author as well.