Motto

I play it cool
And dig all jive
That’s the reason
I stay alive.
 
My motto,
As I live and learn,
            is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
 
Langston Hughes, "Motto" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
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