Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143
“the octopus's secret wish
is not to be a formal fish
he dreams that some time he may grow
another set of legs or so
and be a broadway music show”
archy and mehitabel (1927)
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