Wes Lydon

February 22, 2021

Episode 046 - Frosting

Wes Lydon

February 22, 2021

Langston Hughes
“Frosting”

Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else’s
Cake–
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.

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