Desu is the present positive form of 'be': is. Ka is a question marker when the last sound in a sentence. Japanese grammar also puts desu at the end of sentences. So 'desu ka' is just a combination of the two. I could mean 'isn't it', but that's just a lose translation, I believe.
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â¢ The lyrics to âStrange Fruitâ were written as a poem by Abe Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York in 1937 after seeing published photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith.The poem was published in the New York Teacher under the pseudonym, Lewis Allan. The lyrics to âStrange Fruitâ were written as a poem by Abe Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York in 1937 after seeing published photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith.