There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds holiday But as Violet’s world grows

But as Violet’s world grows

and far back into mankind's ancient past

a single mother more interested in a paycheck than homework

and her daughter’s unpredictable moods

There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds holiday But as Violet’s world growsBack in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling and others, his word children, to write their own glory. Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and more came be bopping to recite poems at their heros feet at that heckuva party at the Schomberg Library, dancing boom da boom,