Episode 50: "Kids Who Die" by Langston Hughes
b'Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.\\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nPhotograph Info:\\nPortrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)\\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nThe Poem:\\nKids Who Die\\n\\nThis is for the kids who die,\\n\\xa0Black and white,\\n\\xa0For kids will die certainly.\\n\\xa0The old and rich will live on awhile,\\n\\xa0As\\xa0 Always,\\n\\xa0Eating blood and gold,\\n\\xa0Letting kids die.\\n\\nKids will die in the swamps of Mississippi\\n\\xa0Organizing sharecroppers\\n\\xa0Kids will die in the streets of Chicago\\n\\xa0Organizing workers\\n\\xa0Kids will die in the orange groves of California\\n\\xa0Telling others to get together\\n\\xa0Whites and Filipinos,\\n\\xa0Negroes and Mexicans,\\n\\xa0All kinds of kids will die\\n\\xa0Who don\\u2019t believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment\\n\\xa0And a lousy peace.'