The Blues
When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry—
That's the blues.
When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had—
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere—
That's the blues, too, and bad!
Copyright Credit: Langston Hughes, "The Blues" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc..
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press, 2002)