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/16.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjmZ4vehYG
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXRebjwpVs8
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtYfK0SEKe
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwJ3V5SbWQ
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGAgu5sxns
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdhtTKD7ch
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8Pw7Uzk7m
Resisting and desisting,800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZoo7m7Us8
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbvOqZ19YX
And they still all fall on the wayside800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHO6c9toH95
I hate how all these kids are going out to play800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8st5fQA7nL
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1caITTHBTa
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEmqCafDiU
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuiCqToefL
Normalcy. Right. Well.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJWfF86GxI
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgD47ZkdzW
But we’ve come a long way since that time–800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCUbUNe22u
I hope to God, anyway.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡme9TOE7Lqd
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmsg9LSOsk
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqb1uTZoiJd
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjPmP0BXiOd
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGbRNsJdsf
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEFEr0zZPh
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZUTeuqp6g
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1vwhBphzQ
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmEX1oFrgF
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Lxs79p49b
While the house around them burns to the ground800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EruRz5jdj
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmthIaamBNT
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymzRJdXas5
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkpZT8PPAy
ALL lives matter? 800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFMpX7AtCOW
F*cking prove it.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDPebYEVcK
