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/16.570Please respect copyright.PENANAsk7zLPCCfP
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along570Please respect copyright.PENANA7FAZBStQmh
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong570Please respect copyright.PENANAQrkYzowjkl
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”570Please respect copyright.PENANAKo0yIyNxRX
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!570Please respect copyright.PENANAhhdNJQdDJy
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed570Please respect copyright.PENANAAQVfIopeto
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of570Please respect copyright.PENANAhC1Kjr1BNg
Resisting and desisting,570Please respect copyright.PENANAoD7QIabh4R
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!570Please respect copyright.PENANAzCiEYjiouE
And they still all fall on the wayside570Please respect copyright.PENANAPMcLVzbAlQ
I hate how all these kids are going out to play570Please respect copyright.PENANASlENtXcyt7
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!570Please respect copyright.PENANAc3Iwu9NYhM
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.570Please respect copyright.PENANAysDeGF0uJH
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.570Please respect copyright.PENANAZNW1ltKYhY
Normalcy. Right. Well.570Please respect copyright.PENANACTbVG9cb6l
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.570Please respect copyright.PENANAWR6DRontT8
But we’ve come a long way since that time–570Please respect copyright.PENANAI7yaaIaC9U
I hope to God, anyway.570Please respect copyright.PENANAVDOld9lUVn
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug570Please respect copyright.PENANACaUar7RpEk
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.570Please respect copyright.PENANAJY1LdXQxcZ
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.570Please respect copyright.PENANAl7jTP3EfVZ
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.570Please respect copyright.PENANAYtIB06vtJE
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.570Please respect copyright.PENANAkgNaOBWrYy
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another570Please respect copyright.PENANAIrVyx8jBtr
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.570Please respect copyright.PENANA4T65HcuaEo
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.570Please respect copyright.PENANAxIznV0NsjN
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”570Please respect copyright.PENANAYogEYxrbIm
While the house around them burns to the ground570Please respect copyright.PENANAvcJ4SbtWFO
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:570Please respect copyright.PENANAq9TZfIQKYX
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"570Please respect copyright.PENANAIJACx2TYin
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)570Please respect copyright.PENANAKZrTovmxPw
ALL lives matter? 570Please respect copyright.PENANANeOwvngdH7
F*cking prove it.570Please respect copyright.PENANAH0M7CKHGbt