Jazz-band, jazz-band,–
Play, plAY, PLAY!
Tomorrow….who knows?
Dance today!
White girls’ eyes
Call gay black boys.
Black boys’ lips
Grin jungle joys.
Dark brown girls
In blond men’s arms.
Jazz-band, jazz-band,–
Sing Eve’s charms!
White ones, brown ones,
What do you know
About tomorrow
Where all paths go?
Jazz-boys, jazz-boys,–
Play, plAY, PLAY!
Tomorrow….is darkness.
Joy today!
Langston Hughes was someone who yearned for racial integration, as evident in the poem "Harlem Night Club." In the poem Hughes depicts a particular night club as an integrated place of celebration. A safe haven of sorts, free from the pain of the outside segregated world. Like most of his poems during this time, there is also a clear lyrical pace to the poem.
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