The poem “Lenox Avenue: Midnight” by Langston Hughes address the rhythm of life and also life and pain. His compare life to a jazz rhythm. He plays on the word honey whether its relay to life on if it’s directed to a person. The god he mentions seems to be the rich laughing at their pain and struggle. In this poem there is an uneasy connection between urban life itself and the blues music that was so common during that time in that urban life itself is nothing but the blues and that “the gods are laughing at us.”