While Ma Jack black marketed Jack when he was a baby
His mom gave him genes that made chance of living a, “Maybe”
First novel was written when he was just age ten
He worked coast to coast and ended up in Harlem
From pre-med to lit, So. Col dropout in ‘23
He eventually died the year after ‘33
Not before using satire to make all of his claims
With friends like Hughes, Du Bois, he had made a name
Wallace influenced Kendrick, 2Pac, Pharoahe Monch, and more
But just like me, poetry's not what Thurman's mainly known for
He's known for blackberries being sweeter than juice
And colorism, racism within race, being the hard, ugly truth