I was given a very powerful book for christmas thank you Jai

i was listening to
southern trees
wailing in the breezes
bearing strange fruit
i was thinking up was to get paid
without layin' on my back
legs wide without strapping on a gat
to make my ends meet
so easy to become an animal
which i was made to believe
i was sitting in the back of the class
secretly lovin what i am hearing
cause my history teacher wore
crazy colors and celebrated
me
i was walking down the street
and saw green eyes looking at me
saying what the f*** is she
doing on this earth!
hair down my back like tree roots
guess it reminded them too
i was listening to southern trees
wailing in the breezes bearing
strange fruit
i was thinking that i
couldn't forget to blow out
the candles and fill the pot with water
on top my heater before i go to bed
don't want to wake-up with a sore throat
i was sitting in the dark cryin
cause i too was laid off and i got six mouths too feed
daddy gone and left me tryin to provide a better life
and got caught-up in the scam
i was walking down the street
knowing the fate my grandparent's
did meet i say thank god i am still
alive
i know i was never meant to survive
i was listening to the sound
of those southern trees
bearing strange fruit
blood on the leaves
blood at the roots
i was thinking about fires
burning
i was sittin' saturated
in a world of madness
i was walkin' alone
i was hearing the laughs
that was under their feets
i was in the wind
carried by the drum beats
i was listening to the sounds
of black bodies swinging
with a twisted mouth
i was thinking of boyz n da hood
dead presidents, set it off and south
central
i was sittin' pulling out my hair
with hate
as this black crackhead bitch sat across from me
with base'
suckin for dear life
on that glass dick
i was surely walkin alone
i was listening to
black bodies swinging
in the southern breezes
remembered those who ran up
north just to become leaves
i saw b.e.t. and seen not too much
more than black skin
pelvic pumpimg out and in
celebrating defaecation of an entire
clan
i was thinkin' knowin'
that this shit just ain't right
i was sittin' in fright
i was walkin'pass a park
remembering where the word
picnic came from.............