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/16.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINucJEdTMp
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxavSf8xKjn
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxJTeAEpcP
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUD47mIkgv
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOFfGVneFG
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzeltsW7S8
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXr3AwbXfvd
Resisting and desisting,255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLf1qvImSX2
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyCOU5hQd9
And they still all fall on the wayside255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYaB2L7dImJ
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7ZYyuHVnE
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWdzK7F2XS
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbW3MZOUdxg
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuoWtXraSO
Normalcy. Right. Well.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQK2qv95x7
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJ31v2Qqfo
But we’ve come a long way since that time–255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcS59m2AwV
I hope to God, anyway.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolM9odExib
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhVIiqL9Q1
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxdqDnMGXj
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClFov3B9BU
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgbgYuHJDy
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLb6YBJmoqj
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2Fnqaq2k1
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXFh8WgDD0h
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLsiK416ts
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbu5yVgYXA
While the house around them burns to the ground255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Vgi4cyHQy
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2ksk4xmb0
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBbiHJeXIc
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyI7O0b1yTR
ALL lives matter? 255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7STrkdwRzH
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F*cking prove it.255Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRoi3HZNVXv
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