Reproduced without permission from Langston Hughes. 

What would happen to a pitch deferred?

Would it dry up

Like a grape in Lerner 510?

Or fester in your mind

At 9 PM?

Would it stink like Friday classes?

Or decompose

Like morning lecture’s masses?

Maybe it’d just drag

like a heavy workload.

Or would it explode?

Wouldn’t want to find out via Wikimedia Commons