Langston Hughes Conjures Death In "Suicide's Note" Vanity Fair, 1925

Poet Langston Hughes in Harlem, June 1958
Robert W. Kelley, Life Photo Archives

The Langston Hughes piece about Memphis Minnie, reminded me sharply of this poem, published in Vanity Fair in 1925:

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
                           
Suicide's Note

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

Representative Poetry Online/University Of Toronto Press