I am a Black Pierrot

by

Langston Hughes

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I am a black Pierrot:

She did not love me,

So I crept away into the night

And the night was black, too.

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I am a black Pierrot:

She did not love me,

So I wept until the red dawn

Dripped blood over the eastern hills

And my heart was bleeding, too.

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I am a black Pierrot:

She did not love me,

So with my once gay colored soul

shrunken like a balloon without air,

I went forth in the morning

To seek a new brown love.

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