Why Democracy means /
A tenant is arrested after the title character yells "Police! Police! / Come and get this man! / He's trying to ruin the government / and overturn the land!" in this author's poem "Ballad of the Landlord." Another of his poems advises the reader that "birthing is hard / and dying is mean / so get yourself / a little loving / in between." His poem "Mother to Son" states "life for me ain't been no crystal stair," and he wrote "I swear to the Lord / I still can't see / Why Democracy means / Everybody but me" in his poem "The Black Man Speaks." For 10 points, name this Harlem Renaissance poet of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
A tenant is arrested after the title character yells "Police!
Langston {Hughes} [accept “{Ballad} of the {Landlord}” before “{author}”]