Just because I loves you—
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like da wings of a butterfly
Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
My heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by.
Langston
Huges (1902-1967) "Reasons Why" (complete poem), 1922, The
Collected Poems of Langston Huges, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel,
1994.
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