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/16.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Zsx9FYG9g
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNyRwf1Kys
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjzXyLe9In
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡszur7rtdg2
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppPhz4PDDl
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNQBAcPRKk
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeXzJspjQha
Resisting and desisting,357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxi3WvjA0bZ
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjZKVRxp0g
And they still all fall on the wayside357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ17x2cR4JC
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm0MOiu8XCh
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb17tDb670k
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuV7uaLdErU
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDetqlqElu
Normalcy. Right. Well.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡieZ1WsHaTt
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTd1GxZt5o
But we’ve come a long way since that time–357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2fg4Anv6S
I hope to God, anyway.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIS4ElxxzC
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4z3NCky0fz
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrf747Nlc7
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZlQuv285H
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvGaX5BMPc
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4grJUK6l8b
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjq6g9G0Q9O
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgm3ZZlBCv
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DCUmSkLUa
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqeuQhu7i9g
While the house around them burns to the ground357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJmsjeqChn
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviAkuf9nBH
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ErQBv4Qj6
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbuIFVUulvO
ALL lives matter? 357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bVhkf0iuF
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F*cking prove it.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0veSxR02D
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