Poem by Langston Hughes
CPUSA Member/ Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes wrote a workers’ song entitled ” One more ‘S’ in the U. S. A.”
Excerpt:
Oh, the bankers they all are planning
For another great big war.
To make them rich from the workers’dead,
That’s all that war is for.
So if you don’t want to see bullets holding sway
Then come on, all you workers,
And join our fight today.
Chorus:
Put one more S in the U.S.A.
To make it Soviet.
One more S in the U.S.A.
Oh, we’ll live to see it yet.
When the land belongs to the farmers
And the factories to the working men —
The U. S. A. when we take control
Will be U. S. S. A. then.
Hughes is a hero of American poetry. I was so excited and attracted by the name Langston hughes when i was studying in grade 10. I had read his soul touching poem called Madam and her Madam. I found so much purity and humanity and the truthness in his poems. there is a human soul in his poems. His every poems are those voices who are suffering.He is the voice of the voiceless. He is really a hero. This poem above is very great.