05/02/13 A Poem A Day writing prompt (Langston Hughes Week)

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Wake by Langston Hughes

Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain’t no sense
In my bein’ dead.

(source: Selected Poems by Langston Hughes)