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J'habite, moi, sur un banc d'un parc,
Vous, l'Avenue Park.
Une distance d'enfer
Entre nous deux.

Je mendie une dime pour mon diner-
Vous avez un sommeiller et un domestique.
Mais je me reveille!
Dis, n'avez-vous pas peur

Que je puisse, peut-etre seulement,
Dans un ou deux ans,
Me deplacer jusqu'a
L'Avenue Park?

_ ' Park Bench'.Langston Hughes.1934.

This is a translation of the poem Park Bench by Langston Hughes

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Topic(s) of this poem: poverty

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It is natural for African Americans to want to get richer and move up to a better suburb where the great white people live. I am presently reading a long biography of Hughes.

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Douglas Scotney 09 August 2015

I wonder if there's a French slangy way to say 'ain't'. some use of rien perhaps

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Michael Walker 08 March 2017

I think you are right Douglas.

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I would like to translate this poem

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