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Far From the Best

I know am far from the best living in a life surrounded in an alcoholic mess life everyday here for a young Native is a lifelong test slap dead middle in of America right in the Mid-West We can be living for more but we are settling for less Many of us ending up full blown alcoholics in the reservation quest Many of us stuck still livng in mama and papa's nest Living third world so many of our adults can give a **** how we may look or dress Hearts pounding wildly for opportunity in the chest While Alcohol and drugs into our young minds continue to infest I try even though I know I am far from the best....

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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