Three Impossible Blues

The Blues by Langston Hughes


When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry-
That's the blues.


When you go to buy a candy bar
And you've lost the dime you had-
Slipped through a hole in your pocket somewhere-
That's the blues, too, and bad!

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Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?


Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?


Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?


Paul Varjak: Sure.