Transcribed from a spoken word improv night at O’Lounge, Song-tan, Republic of Korea. First performed by Blondemaverick, a.k.a Bloodjay 26/OCT/16.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQwqKXHRsV
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJURkEhlQXB
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizS2HPDlrT
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsd3gVINx7G
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjyVlQNCS6
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡImwH4eH1Y0
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0HUhWYwcgY
Resisting and desisting,945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDJzva0wZh
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFcWioYsAg
And they still all fall on the wayside945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTb3koicVo
I hate how all these kids are going out to play945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaj8mGOrA3
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnYRT5Z6NS
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0YsKVH3m4e
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbYwn24AL7
Normalcy. Right. Well.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5LUhvrVaT
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhGmY51cHZ
But we’ve come a long way since that time–945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXKAfHVOKH
I hope to God, anyway.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguyKansdFa
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FtZkXJiq3
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5rk7Zxdgj
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGT5tG6jPE
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGSYohcBKW
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XtQG5jlG2
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOBchFT8Wh
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOQ7DWU2dPy
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnnJOzgi2Nl
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwLYh5i520
While the house around them burns to the ground945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq9P84WaiDW
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljKVjJWTnX
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzR3bqMi16m
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQEPsfLg5d
ALL lives matter? 945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xFZD9jY7n
F*cking prove it.945Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgkMeZjUvw
