I recently completed a creative writing course at South Seattle Community College. As one of our assignments, we were to recite a poem from memory. In the packet of poems we were given I came across a Langston Hughes poem entitle "Genius Child" and something about the poem spoke to me in such a way that I felt compelled to put it to music.
Here is the scratch track I laid down a couple days after I performed it in class:
Genius Child
This is the song
of the genius child
sing it softly
for the song is wild
Sing it softly
ever as you can
lest the song get out of hand
No-body loves the genius child
Can you love an eagle
tame or wild?
Wild or tame
can you love a monster
of a frightening name?
No-body loves the genius child
Kill Him!
Lest his soul
run wild
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