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/16.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2JRURJ5S3
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6WRoBAqzCm
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUtJdR1N3S
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxiL41RDBG
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptJRwO1nXf
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU6YsyxZsN
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9P9XN7n45
Resisting and desisting,488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsex4OOuFr
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6raueqo2L5
And they still all fall on the wayside488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNFIgitfAQ
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnjRK6H101
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCV6aFA4NXq
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMwXudZQKf
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uAWaa8iXG
Normalcy. Right. Well.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSBLQypqK2z
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvqKP9PBIo
But we’ve come a long way since that time–488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3GqO7sr3c1
I hope to God, anyway.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLKGkq3E8c
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXb7NTfWZkJ
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIo1MFFdQ5
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe02J8D2hBp
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZL44Fc39Uo
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxTALn8b4o
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIdtz2pca3
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzQOXc8gIn
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLI7hNU2KGE
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXJ7YInUmf
While the house around them burns to the ground488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKqpPmeddn
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8jXfhJlWXY
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9UOv3Q3gJ
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdCqwWoH5xb
ALL lives matter? 488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd5MDPA0ArM
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F*cking prove it.488Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ShStdvID3
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