The Blues in  General   

When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry-
That's the blues.

When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!

By Langston Hughes

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Other poems by Langston Hughes:

• Ardella
• Daybreak In Alabama
• Dream Deferred
• Dream Variations
• Fire-Caught
• Freedoms Plow
• I, Too, Sing America
• Juke Box Love Song
• Justice
• Madam And Her Madam
• Merry-Go-Round
• Minstrel Man
• Mother to Son
• Night Funeral In Harlem
• Problems
• Quiet Girl
• Still Here
• The Blues
• The Negro Mother
• The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
• The Weary Blues
• Walkers With The Dawn