Pro*gres*sive [pruh-gres-iv]
-adjective
1. favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement...
2. making progress toward better conditions

Related forms:
pro*gres*sive*ly, adverb
pro*gres*sive*ness, pro*gres*siv*ity, noun

Sunday, March 21, 2010

A Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat
Or crust and sugar over-
Like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
Like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes


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