“Good Morning, Revolution,” (weekly poem)

“Good Morning, Revolution” 

Listen, Revolution,

We’re buddies, see —

Together,

We can take everything:

Factories, arsenals, houses, ships,

Railroads, forests, fields, orchards,

Bus lines, telegraphs, radios,

(Jesus! Raise hell with radios!)

Steel mills, coal mines, oil wells, gas,

All the tools of production,

(Great day in the morning!)

Everything —

And turn ’em over to the people who work.

Rule and run ’em for us people who work.

Langston Hughes, 1934