As the title states, This is a never ending story of despair.

FOREVER … DESPAIR

The Tumbles Weed rolled across the Main Street and the Devil Dusters caused by the Wind danced over the yards of the few whether beaten houses that constituted the City of Bear Butte, South Dakota..
In the yards or beside most of the houses in Bear Butte there were abandoned vehicles of all sizes and shapes. They were left to weather away at Mother Nature's Will.
Bear Butte was the only City, Town, Place on the Fifty Thousand-Acre, Bear Butte, Lakota Reservation.
Besides the few Clapboard sided houses was one building that housed the Gas Station, Post Office, General Store and Meeting Place for the Tribal Council.
What had been a dusty, muddy trail that served as the Main street of Bear Butte for over a Hundred Years was a now a snake like ribbon of Asphalt that had been laid during the dryer years of the Nineteen Thirties by some well meaning WPA Government worker.
On the first of ever month when the Checks arrived from the Federal Government for the remnants of the once proud Bear Butte, Lakota Sioux Indians. The Indian families could be seen driving into the Bear Butte General Store in their rusted, bald Tired Pickup Trucks.
The leader of the family would be driving; mom would be setting in the middle and if there were an older male he would be setting Shotgun by the open window of the other door of the pickup. The four or six smaller children would be setting in the back of the Pickup.
The great clouds of dust would be billowing up around the rear of the Pickup, covering the children in the bed of the Pickup in a red dusting of dirt. The clouds of Iron Laden dirt which covered the children were from the trails leading from the so-called Ranches of the Indians to the ribbon of Asphalt leading to Town.
Once in town the drivers of the pickups would collect the Government checks at the Post Office Window in the General store. He would cross the room and give the check to the Store owner. The Postmaster was always related in some way to the Store owner.
The Store owner would have the driver make his mark on the back of the check. The Store owner would then deposit the check in the cash drawer and then give the driver a ledger sheet marked PAID IN FULL.
The Government Check would always cover the total on the ledger sheet for items bought at the Store for the previous month. The store owner always had a fresh, clean, unmarked ledger sheet to start the next month's purchase.
While this was taking place the wife of the driver would have been searching the Store for food items that would be needed to last the Indian family for the next month. Included in the food items would be four or five cases of beer, three or four gallons of cheap wine and three or four pounds of tobacco.

Then the cycle would begin again.

FOREVER … DESPAIR