Black Bodies ‘Swangin’.
Abel Meeropol
proclaims
strange fruit’s
common
in
the South.
But Father,
on this
very day
the
North,
East
and
West
practices
‘summadat’
same ole
same ole
mess.
Yeah,
I’d say
on
any given
“Holiday”
Billie
that ‘iz’;
them
black holes
been
‘sportin’
‘SUM’
strange fruit
at
its best
these days.
The more colored ‘thangs’
change;
the more
strange fruit
‘wit’
black bodies
begin
to ‘swang’.
A B.A.D. Poem
Dedicated to:
“The God of our fathers raised up Jesus,
whom ye slew and hanged on a tree” (Acts
5:30 KJV).
7 August 1930 lynching in Marion, Indiana -- Lawrence Beitler
American Nocturne -- David Powers