Oct 5th 2007 Just so you know…
Apparently, there was some confusion over the last post I put up, so I guess I have to explain. It seems Matt W (whoever he is) thought that Langston and I have broken up, and that this was a love poem of some sort I have written.
Wrong on two camps, Matt W, my anonymous friend; I am firmly in the heterosexual camp and the poem was written by that genius of the Harlem Renaissance, Mr. Langston Hughes. (Who, incidentally, was NOT firmly in the heterosexual camp… not that there is anything wrong with that.) The name of the poem is Still Here, and if he had never written another thing, you still could have called the man a genius.
The reason I put it up is because it summed up, far more succinctly than I am able, exactly what I am feeling right now. Because he said it all, when asked how I am, I am able to just reply, “Still Here!”.
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