Kara Walker(American, born 1969). Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart. 1994. Paper, overall: 13 x 50′  The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection(March 8, 2015–March 31, 2016)

Misery

Langston Hughes

Play de blues for me

Play de blues for me

No other music

"Ll ease ma misery.

Sing a soothin' song

Sing a soothin' song

Cause de man I love's done

Done me wrong.

Can't you understand

O, understand

A good woman's cryin'

Black gal like me,

Black gal like me

"S got to hear a blues

For her misery

Langston Hughes(February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)

James Mercer Langston Hughes  was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.

He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". www.wikipedia.org