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Who Understands Me But Me By Jimmy Santiago Baaca
“Who Understands Me But Me,” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, is about an author talking about life in prison. It explains how life would be behind bars.explaining how you should choose your path the correct way and make good decisions in life. Also how hard it is to get your life back together after prison because it changes your life. To get your life together before it all goes bad. How you need to think things through in life before you do them. Also how hard it could be getting your life back together after all the drama going on around you. The speaker of the poem could be having hard times in life, that could why he is having trouble. The speaker is probably a person who is depressed. The reason i believe this is because in the poem it says
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