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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

— Langston Hughes

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Source: "Tired," The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (Vintage Classics: 1995), p. 135
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