The poem is sad because it wants to be yours and cannot be.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time...
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.