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    The poem describes lynching in the American South, with black bodies hanging from trees bearing strange fruit. It depicts the gruesome scene through vivid imagery, contrasting the pastoral south with the smell of burning flesh. The strange and bitter crop is the lynched bodies left for nature to take its course.

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    The poem describes lynching in the American South, with black bodies hanging from trees bearing strange fruit. It depicts the gruesome scene through vivid imagery, contrasting the pastoral south with the smell of burning flesh. The strange and bitter crop is the lynched bodies left for nature to take its course.

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    The poem describes lynching in the American South, with black bodies hanging from trees bearing strange fruit. It depicts the gruesome scene through vivid imagery, contrasting the pastoral south with the smell of burning flesh. The strange and bitter crop is the lynched bodies left for nature to take its course.

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    The poem describes lynching in the American South, with black bodies hanging from trees bearing strange fruit. It depicts the gruesome scene through vivid imagery, contrasting the pastoral south with the smell of burning flesh. The strange and bitter crop is the lynched bodies left for nature to take its course.

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    Strange Fruit

    writen by Abel Meeropol (publishing as Lewis Allan)




    Southern trees bear strange fruit,
    Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
    Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
    Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

    Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
    Te bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
    Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
    Ten the sudden smell of burning fesh.

    Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck,
    For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
    For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
    Here is a strange and biter crop.

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