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/16.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2ANghUv1U
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi2ZoteRJRS
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1swmejLBei
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvck6ZBnU6o
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoqONU3EDV
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFo41CnNeC
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JOpPO1dI7
Resisting and desisting,149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByw2njWqYz
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmveKzgnX3C
And they still all fall on the wayside149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8loybczoV
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0td3QwZhv
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzE1NoB4My7
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8gKwOVJnk
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5k8inZPnh
Normalcy. Right. Well.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWVlKjWO6v
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuDcfa0aUo
But we’ve come a long way since that time–149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuztPIMcIBA
I hope to God, anyway.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZVwUhhee5k
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2Pne4yfes
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJ27yKTLsu
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrqSmI9AWf
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGhK3vOBK3
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oN6vlQp7j
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtLkl73vHZ
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCF2mJxaki
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoH1vdnlCu
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFwYqRkxUPe
While the house around them burns to the ground149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTARzCdiaoD
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtC2aDxn1T0
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwywuYnOvhE
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbeBKQO31d
ALL lives matter? 149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGuPJEtg2u9
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F*cking prove it.149Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20IyvGWkcd
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