HARLEM BY LANGSTON HUGHES 1 What happens to a dream deferred? 2 Does it dry up 3 like a raisin in the sun? 4 Or fester like a sore— 5 And then run? 6 Does it stink like rotten meat? 7 Or crust and sugar over— 8 like a syrupy sweet? 9 Maybe it just sags 10 like a heavy load. 11 Or does it explode? SPEAKER: The speaker of the poem titled ‘Harlem’ by author Langston Hughes is not