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" I live on a park bench,
You, Park Avenue.
Hell of a distance
Between us two.

I beg a dime for dinner--
You got a butler and maid.
But I'm wakin' up!
Say, ain't you afraid

That I might, just maybe,
In a year or two,
Move on over
To Park Avenue? "

Langston Hughes ,


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Langston Hughes quote : I live on a park bench,<br />You, Park Avenue.<br />Hell of a distance<br />Between us two.<br /><br />I beg a dime for dinner--<br />You got a butler and maid.<br />But I'm wakin' up!<br />Say, ain't you afraid<br /><br />That I might, just maybe,<br />In a year or two,<br />Move on over<br />To Park Avenue?