Movies
The Roosevelt, Renaissance, Gem, Alhambra:
Harlem laughing in all the wrong places
at the crocodile tears
of crocodile art
that you know
in your heart
is crocodile:
(Hollywood
laughs at me,
black —
so I laugh
back.)
Copyright Credit: Langston Hughes, "Movies" from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 1994 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Random House LLC.
Source: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Penguin Random House LLC, 1994)