Archive for July 7th, 2002

A Dream Deferred

Sunday, July 7th, 2002
The recent discusssions of anger at Burningbird and Pagecount inspired me to dig out an old Langston Hughes’ poem: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy [...]