Havana Dreams

Langston Hughes

 The dream is a cocktail at Sloppy Joe’s –
 (Maybe – nobody knows.)

 The dream is the road to Batabano.
 (But nobody knows if that is so.)

 Perhaps the dream is only her face –
 Perhaps it’s a fan of silver lace –
 Or maybe the dream’s a Vedado rose –
 (Quien sabe? Who really knows?

Closed for almost 50 years following a fire in the 1960s, Cuba's most famous bar, Sloppy Joe's bar in Havana, reopened in 2013. The bar features in the film of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana.