Lady’s Boogie
 

See that lady
Dressed so fine?
She ain’t got boogie-woogie
On her mind—
 
But if she was to listen
I bet she’d hear,
Way up in the treble
The tingle of a tear.
 
            Be-Bach!
 
Langston Hughes, "Lady’s Boogie" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
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