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Arna Bontemps, "Holiday" (1926)

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When I consider all the people on this stret
I am sad.
I am pained
With thoughts of little feet,
Black, brown, and yellow feet
Walking up and down,
Going nowhere.
My heart breaks
When I think of people on this lonely street.


Published in The Crisis, July 1926

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