Deferred
/When we defer our dreams, are they lost, or do they wait to explode? "Deferred" is a response poem to “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes.
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A dream deferred
is a letter under a bin
full of mystery missives
in the Dead Mail Center,
that changed its name
to the Mail Recovery Center,
but your letter didn’t get
the memo on that.
A dream deferred
is an old newspaper
under a keg of dynamite,
both from 1954
when nothing happened,
encased in a rusted cannister
that detonates from an explosion
of regret.
By Nolcha Fox
From: United States
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