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This Business of Dance
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FOLLOW HUGHES' INSTRUCTION
(Italics are samples of Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B’) |
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Go home
Write a page
And let that page come out of you
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Then, it will be true
I
wonder if it’s that simple, Hughes,
You who rocked the flat table with
the cold metal keys clacking
upon your typing paper for who?
I
am twenty-seven, Chinese and Female, born in Toronto, Canada
I
went to school at Riverdale, then York, then to an office.
There’s
a free admission to this college on the hill of my brain
I
am the only student in my class
The
steps from the hill lead down into my physical body
Through
a congested forest of tangled hair and proof of time
I
cross a bridge of hope, leading to ambition and desire
Where
somethin’s always poking me for somethin’
I
go up the elevator to
my
lonely room and sit down and write this page.
It’s
not easy to know what is true for you or me But, I guess I, too, am what I feel and see and hear.
and I hear you: hear you, hear me – we, too – you, me talk on
this page. ( I hear other people, too).
Me–who?
Well,
I like to dance, listen to music, play characters and be in love
I
like a good journal for a Christmas present,
Or
clothes, colourful, comfy and chique.
I
guess being Chinese and Female doesn’t make me not like
The
same things that other folks like So will my page be Chinese and Female?
Being
me, it will not be white or Hughes
But
it will be A part of you, instructor.
You
are America who sings of rivers
Whatever
flows from me must either come from the sky or Lake Ontario
Buddha
spoke of rivers within which needs further discussion with you
But
that is the world, today, in need of better footnotes.
Sometimes,
you don’t want to be a part of me.
Think I’m silly, don’t you?
As
I don’t often want to be a part of you
And
we are, that’s true.
As
I learn from you, I guess you learn from me
Although
you’re older – and a tall slim tree –
And
somewhat more free.
© lyw
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