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/16.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBZwbTmi6j
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3FdqWLMOM
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxlxAA6Hi7M
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCnW9yQvRW
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFZvTprEcg
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJBZkc51ud
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrQbnZJdvB
Resisting and desisting,109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡakg9PazhOL
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxgv9fQllRQ
And they still all fall on the wayside109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFhpRFoBST
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3etd4DMls
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySI41YUnkM
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdTsujj9HU2
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB65QzjUd5g
Normalcy. Right. Well.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFE9oIanDyH
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLBRfUbpB5
But we’ve come a long way since that time–109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdcy4MRZZX
I hope to God, anyway.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFBo3kzqX7
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mTJe9Dpyf
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0tIyxuqwu
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnLaYaeiJFg
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNDKwRTahs
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNtTv1q0rW
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPIGNTU6Dz
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnum0fTS939
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBtX4mt6Muy
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZnsGblAiZ
While the house around them burns to the ground109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FtwFJpxSs
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtWEyi7E5C
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPCAiiMES4
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1J7xoQXVI
ALL lives matter? 109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqDcmhLFppL
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F*cking prove it.109Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DBDeTV0yN
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