Sores Beneath the Bandage

A poem by Langston Hughes

Art: The Festering Blindfold by Corinne Vance

Music: Blindfolded Scales by Elias Stone

That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.

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