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/16.488Please respect copyright.PENANAo2JRURJ5S3
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along488Please respect copyright.PENANA6WRoBAqzCm
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong488Please respect copyright.PENANAoUtJdR1N3S
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”488Please respect copyright.PENANAzxiL41RDBG
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!488Please respect copyright.PENANAptJRwO1nXf
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed488Please respect copyright.PENANAGU6YsyxZsN
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of488Please respect copyright.PENANAI9P9XN7n45
Resisting and desisting,488Please respect copyright.PENANAIsex4OOuFr
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!488Please respect copyright.PENANA6raueqo2L5
And they still all fall on the wayside488Please respect copyright.PENANACNFIgitfAQ
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play488Please respect copyright.PENANAOnjRK6H101
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!488Please respect copyright.PENANACV6aFA4NXq
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.488Please respect copyright.PENANAaMwXudZQKf
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.488Please respect copyright.PENANA3uAWaa8iXG
Normalcy. Right. Well.488Please respect copyright.PENANASBLQypqK2z
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.488Please respect copyright.PENANAcvqKP9PBIo
But we’ve come a long way since that time–488Please respect copyright.PENANA3GqO7sr3c1
I hope to God, anyway.488Please respect copyright.PENANATLKGkq3E8c
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug488Please respect copyright.PENANAXb7NTfWZkJ
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.488Please respect copyright.PENANAGIo1MFFdQ5
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.488Please respect copyright.PENANAe02J8D2hBp
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.488Please respect copyright.PENANAZL44Fc39Uo
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.488Please respect copyright.PENANAdxTALn8b4o
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another488Please respect copyright.PENANAsIdtz2pca3
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.488Please respect copyright.PENANAIzQOXc8gIn
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.488Please respect copyright.PENANALI7hNU2KGE
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”488Please respect copyright.PENANAvXJ7YInUmf
While the house around them burns to the ground488Please respect copyright.PENANAKKqpPmeddn
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:488Please respect copyright.PENANA8jXfhJlWXY
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"488Please respect copyright.PENANAW9UOv3Q3gJ
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)488Please respect copyright.PENANAdCqwWoH5xb
ALL lives matter? 488Please respect copyright.PENANAd5MDPA0ArM
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F*cking prove it.488Please respect copyright.PENANA6ShStdvID3
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