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"If-ing"

If I had some small change

I’d buy me a mule,

Get on that mule and

Ride like a fool.

If I had some greenbacks

I’d buy me a Packard,

Fill it up with gas and

Drive that baby backward.

If I had a million

I’d get me a plane

And everybody in America’d

Think I was insane.

But I ain’t got a million,

Fact is, ain’t got a dime —

So just by if-ing

I have a good time!

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"Fog"

BY CARL SANDBURG

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org. "Snail"

Written by Langston Hughes

Read by Teyuna T. Darris

Little snail,

Dreaming you go.

Weather and rose

Is all you know.

Weather and rose

Is all you see,

Drinking

The dewdrop’s

Mystery.

Langston Hughes

From Collected Poems. Copyright ©1994 by The Estate

of Langston Hughes.

Listen to "Dream Dust" by Langston Hughes, read by Teyuna T. Darris.

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Listen to Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" read by Teyuna T. Darris. More at www.GoodPoetry.org.

Audio recording of Teyuna T. Darris reading "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.

No matter what we are and who,

Some duties everyone must do:

A poet puts aside his wreath

To wash his face and brush his teeth,

And even Earls

Must comb their curls,

And even Kings

Have underthings.

He had his dream, and all through life,

Worked up to it through toil and strife.

Afloat fore'er before his eyes,

It colored for him all his skies:

The storm-cloud dark

Above his bark,

The calm and listless vault of blue

Took on its hopeful hue,

It tinctured every passing beam -

He had his dream.

He labored hard and failed at last,

His sails too weak to bear the blast,

The raging tempests tore away

And sent his beating bark astray.

But what cared he

For wind or sea!

He said, 'The tempest will be short,

My bark will come to port.'

He saw through every cloud a gleam -

He had his dream.

This is a poetry reading from GoodPoetry.org. Today, "I had no time to hate, because" by Emily Dickinson is presented. Narrated by Teyuna T. Darris.