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Flint

Sipping on that juice

You are tripping

Screaming and laughing all at once

I'm flying getting my game on

Mystifying you be wearing your *** kicking boots

Smoking one, putting that roach in a jar

Popping vicodin just to stay alive

Not even sure if I exist

Selling Adderall's so the ******* can stay skinny

Sweet little boy shot down on his big wheel bike

All I can do is grab the mic and send the message on

People on the street begging for money for addictions

******* **** just to get high

What if that was your daughter?

Hoping the soup kitchen is open

Do they have a empty bed for me to sleep tonight

Dressing in color

It's a true story this town is in demise

The water is not even safe to drink

Lake Huron to the Flint river

The town showing no love

Then Rick Snyder declares a state of emergency

The first person to come forward Sasha Bell

Was found murdered in her home as her small one year old son was left to roam

She had a law suit against the Flint water crisis

She is now silenced a baby without a mother

Nobody is winning here

90 people were sickened from exposer 12 died

Delivering bottle water to Veteran's, as they are losing there homes

People who have worked there whole lives

People just trying to survive

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Written by
flawless-contradictions-1
50 / F / American
Published
Oct 3, 2020
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I grew up in lower Michigan and my family and friends are directly effected by the water crisis. .I know the town is a mess. The crime rate the shootings of innocent people/ I would love to see Flint be what I remember as a child.

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