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Somewhere in this country
An over worked
Single mother

Works a minimum
Wage job
Three in fact
Because
Just one doesn't
Pay enough
To feed her kids
Who because of this

Are at home alone
Pratically
Raising
Themselves
And each other
Yet employers

Fight raising
The minimuim wage
Because
They are wrongfully
Convinced
That it is already

Enough to
Live on
Somewhere in
This country
Another bullied kid
Commits suicide
Because the school
Refused to help
Stating that
It's nothing more
Than kids just
Being kids
Despite their
So called policy
Of no tolerance
Somewhere in
This country
There are people
Who believe
That racism
Is over
But tell that
To kid who
Got jumped
And beat up
On his way home
From school
Because of it
Somewhere
In this country
Someone
Is insisting
That there is no

Real homeless
Problem
In America
But tell that
To the family
That froze to death
Last night
On the streets
Because they
Had nowhere
To go
Nowhere
To call home
Somewhere
In this country
Another fatal
Shooting happens
Yet people
Still continue
To fight
Against better
Gun control
Somewhere
In this country

All of these things
Are happening
And yet we sit
Around and do
Nothing about it
Pissed off yet?
Because I am