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/16.635Please respect copyright.PENANACe3MdNa8Dr
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along635Please respect copyright.PENANACIOPHYrzGS
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong635Please respect copyright.PENANALYtKnmt2xq
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”635Please respect copyright.PENANAFajDorYftv
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!635Please respect copyright.PENANAlZZ3svjJMw
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed635Please respect copyright.PENANAGUMVk1Vmm9
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of635Please respect copyright.PENANAEFhV1Waem7
Resisting and desisting,635Please respect copyright.PENANAcDrCBpqTsf
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!635Please respect copyright.PENANAAYNnv7j5BU
And they still all fall on the wayside635Please respect copyright.PENANAVJVux0shwM
I hate how all these kids are going out to play635Please respect copyright.PENANA9JYxmJQsOL
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!635Please respect copyright.PENANAgaYq95RELO
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.635Please respect copyright.PENANAtXDKnz5cbT
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.635Please respect copyright.PENANAwpFDDw6nZa
Normalcy. Right. Well.635Please respect copyright.PENANAqex5zl4tbF
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.635Please respect copyright.PENANA2Npl1obOuf
But we’ve come a long way since that time–635Please respect copyright.PENANAelmbmr0Dfe
I hope to God, anyway.635Please respect copyright.PENANATkwVNav216
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug635Please respect copyright.PENANACmRSMM0ciS
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.635Please respect copyright.PENANAwmQxoqwaKy
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.635Please respect copyright.PENANAygRbGxqKcc
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.635Please respect copyright.PENANAVaGnHgmgb4
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.635Please respect copyright.PENANA2HC1nlkdbF
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another635Please respect copyright.PENANAWKGMTl80qD
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.635Please respect copyright.PENANAKS5gpBq5ek
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.635Please respect copyright.PENANAfUKGuOYnNq
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”635Please respect copyright.PENANAckMIKZxvvp
While the house around them burns to the ground635Please respect copyright.PENANAg0R53YCqN8
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:635Please respect copyright.PENANAffpZFw2kzo
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"635Please respect copyright.PENANAI9sAP7eJdS
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)635Please respect copyright.PENANAb94kc4HjRC
ALL lives matter? 635Please respect copyright.PENANAgurQxa209C
F*cking prove it.635Please respect copyright.PENANAjTDRxAjA2h