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Poem for Today - February 18, 2014 
Continuing Black History Month

FLORIDA ROAD WORKERS

I‘m makin’ a road

For the cars to fly by on

Makin’ a road

Through the palmetto thicket

For light and civilization

To travel on.

l’m makin’ a road

For the rich to sweep over

In their big cars

And Ieave me staudin’ here.

Sure,

A road helps everybody!

Rich folks ride --

And I get to see ‘em ride.

I ain’t never seen nobody

Ride so fine before.

Hey, Buddy, Look!

l’m makin’ a road!

                                      - Langston Hughes  ©

“Florida Road Workers” by Langston Hughes: from The Panther and the Lash by Langston Hughes. Copyright 1967 by Arna Bontems and George Houston Bass. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Painting on top: Walter Durac Barnett