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Vagabonds,
Langston Hughes
The poetry's
name is "Vagabonds". It's just one word, clear, brutal. What should we expect
from a poetry with such a title? Nothing different from a short, essential poetry with a profound
message.
"We are the
desperate
Who do not
care."
How can we imagine
such a profound desperation that make us don't care about anything? Also in our
worsts moments, there were always something that could helped us, maybe just a
bit; but there were something.
"The hungry
Who have
nowhere
To eat."
Have we
ever missed some meals? One, two, maybe three in our life, eating for two
persons the meal after. Can we think about missing meals for days? Just to
think about it, we became hungry. There is something we can understand worse
than the Hungry? I don't think we will EVER capable to do that.
"No place
to sleep"
Maybe
someone might have slept sometimes outside, on a bench, waiting for something
or someone. But this isn't sleeping as a vagabond, with the cold, the danger,
the fear, the Hungry that freeze you,
without anything to cover yourself.
"The
tearless
Who cannot
Weep"