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Harlem Notes

To cause this massive cultural explosion,
We had a vast jazz, art, and literate invasion.
From Langston Hughes to Jacob Lawrence,
Our glorious country has not been quite the same since.

With these concerts and shows twinkling in the midnight sun,
“Ev’ry morning, Ev’ry evening ain’t we got fun? ”
What’s wrong? I can’t see.
With all this new diversity, how harmful could it be?

Some of us could not fathom it;
Others, with great assertion, would not allow it.
But before this modernizing time came and went,
The Change was not one for confinement.

Escaping the fields of home and vile memories of old,
They came and revolutionized the culture told.
Expressing racial pride and assimilation,
They moved up North towards the urbanization.
They sought new life and new opportunities,
To win them a life full of prosperous destinies.

Far from the old days of cruel customs and punishments,
They left what they knew and brought with them bold, bizarre excellence.
New words and new style.
They kept every man’s preference all but agile.

Some rejected this new fashion,
Keeping out this cultural expansion.
But some gallantly daunting youths
Roved here and far on unpaved routes.
It was the glory of the remarkable “Roaring Twenties! ”
And pleasure was always aplenty!

With these concerts and shows twinkling in the midnight sun,
“Ev’ry morning, Ev’ry evening ain’t we got fun? ”
What’s wrong? I can’t see.
With all this new diversity, how harmful could it be?

With peculiar rhythms and deviated brass-created notes abundant,
And new poets, writers, and artists to transform our assessment,
America the Great was evolved with this new variety to sample
With the wide, countless arts and skills supplied in ample!

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