Langston Hughes

Flatted Fifths

Little cullud boys with beards re-bop be-bop mop and stop. Little cullud boys with fears, frantic, kick their CC years into flatted fifths and flatter beers that at a sudden change become sparkling Oriental wines rich and strange silken bathrobes with gold twines and Heilbroner, Crawford, Nat-undreamed-of Lewis combines in silver thread and diamond notes on trade-marks inside Howard coats. Little cullud boys in berets oop pop-a-da horse a fantasy of days ool ya koo and dig all plays.