Suicide's Note

By Langston Hughes

The calm,

Cool face of the river

Asked me for a kiss.

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Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays....

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