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/16.639Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1Zfq7A7aa
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along639Please respect copyright.PENANAc8PlWDx1H1
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong639Please respect copyright.PENANATFoKc4yVOj
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”639Please respect copyright.PENANA6FCeJN3ofI
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!639Please respect copyright.PENANA1OJ30MJaiF
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed639Please respect copyright.PENANA5GaoQL8uWl
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of639Please respect copyright.PENANAZiANLuZaCQ
Resisting and desisting,639Please respect copyright.PENANAEqqZUZeJ6j
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!639Please respect copyright.PENANALCIvWWc5uD
And they still all fall on the wayside639Please respect copyright.PENANAynhFNyWdn8
I hate how all these kids are going out to play639Please respect copyright.PENANA2t4vxyysDF
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!639Please respect copyright.PENANA8ibYS97Fmr
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.639Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0pHCQ7Ppo
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.639Please respect copyright.PENANAUm1VRWJYIO
Normalcy. Right. Well.639Please respect copyright.PENANAToPNusX87c
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.639Please respect copyright.PENANAf4CWXsQUfi
But we’ve come a long way since that time–639Please respect copyright.PENANASUw5MPN9TP
I hope to God, anyway.639Please respect copyright.PENANAPyiDlvlIlc
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug639Please respect copyright.PENANAvHkhPFqGrq
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.639Please respect copyright.PENANAO2ke49gtzb
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.639Please respect copyright.PENANAYXJzMlmqWW
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.639Please respect copyright.PENANAmHDb3BopG4
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.639Please respect copyright.PENANAgkiTnuA0GA
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another639Please respect copyright.PENANAibq9FL6qH9
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.639Please respect copyright.PENANAhzaHMLC6Up
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.639Please respect copyright.PENANA5ATyyk6zdW
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”639Please respect copyright.PENANAkVlqxivcvs
While the house around them burns to the ground639Please respect copyright.PENANAg93flbnGCy
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:639Please respect copyright.PENANAqW7hodqry0
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"639Please respect copyright.PENANAOGt1ePLQwh
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)639Please respect copyright.PENANA9FiiRhJD0M
ALL lives matter? 639Please respect copyright.PENANAnqOOjVVuvI
F*cking prove it.639Please respect copyright.PENANAUhkctcY7np