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/16.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLHBJEFTbk
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbiex1NJSAT
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTuq4lykFy
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWMez0PJuf
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMFiU3zrues
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxZOcVmBNw
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV19kOlDaMx
Resisting and desisting,898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwjKjRv5P6
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10naRgpHdy
And they still all fall on the wayside898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BnA5Srn2R
I hate how all these kids are going out to play898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCbNvSf8kj
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAZQgqND5BG
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPsTeuSZoTp
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvdFZB3et1
Normalcy. Right. Well.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLiTsnOc7X
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbHJZ2seOX
But we’ve come a long way since that time–898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXqadwwq3D
I hope to God, anyway.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hkt9vesxs
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyw6KKhYFba
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSFh0o90n8v
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghLKhwyJwb
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKrQSzq8nb
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89Cd4CDMDi
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jxfl75VwN
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiqc8t1UeG
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyzSkZWNr8
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7otrsKw6nX
While the house around them burns to the ground898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiS7Jgwcjp
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsStg08HM9e
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyiPFjPfMmy
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZsaFiO7uC
ALL lives matter? 898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojmx2kIkta
F*cking prove it.898Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGLZVmtEGqx
