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/16.642Please respect copyright.PENANAH25uOvaMJG
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along642Please respect copyright.PENANApkHxFNuZZd
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong642Please respect copyright.PENANANKXUY9wQPI
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”642Please respect copyright.PENANA8Po9BUZPUK
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!642Please respect copyright.PENANAZaQYvNQnRs
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed642Please respect copyright.PENANAgjmHXLUxhn
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of642Please respect copyright.PENANAa92qbwIwHh
Resisting and desisting,642Please respect copyright.PENANAk8q2LIA5Bm
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!642Please respect copyright.PENANAErHGcZhewT
And they still all fall on the wayside642Please respect copyright.PENANA0PlodaqkTX
I hate how all these kids are going out to play642Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4jDxgMjVd
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!642Please respect copyright.PENANAc2g0woOegi
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.642Please respect copyright.PENANADnQXhdR4aR
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.642Please respect copyright.PENANAMbxO8FA1Lj
Normalcy. Right. Well.642Please respect copyright.PENANAO4RJLwD3mR
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.642Please respect copyright.PENANAdEhZ1HYoLL
But we’ve come a long way since that time–642Please respect copyright.PENANAImCnhflUJC
I hope to God, anyway.642Please respect copyright.PENANA3L1aBy0lKr
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug642Please respect copyright.PENANAt67g4hqr4f
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.642Please respect copyright.PENANA7iGqfB162Z
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.642Please respect copyright.PENANAjeJZVDGaEq
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.642Please respect copyright.PENANAtFE80VTTkq
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.642Please respect copyright.PENANA7UW4o7vTxR
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another642Please respect copyright.PENANAgjj1fRkoRI
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.642Please respect copyright.PENANATiddMXJj2D
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.642Please respect copyright.PENANARuyBez9R3g
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”642Please respect copyright.PENANAbACUdbZoEM
While the house around them burns to the ground642Please respect copyright.PENANAVH2I3Ntpfy
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:642Please respect copyright.PENANAJD5TyHAm3s
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"642Please respect copyright.PENANAlzxWaDxRou
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)642Please respect copyright.PENANAh8C0b8c03x
ALL lives matter? 642Please respect copyright.PENANA1P0OXrvTkg
F*cking prove it.642Please respect copyright.PENANAWjZKy5rL7c