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/16.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6tTupD8S5
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkHQ86JTQwV
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSf7xwDZSH
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjqazIilCg
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM4twPzmQZM
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMIyI0EDnDw
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDQ86ccvrJ
Resisting and desisting,873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAFWNCQhNh
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeupXgDKfl
And they still all fall on the wayside873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2TQNBf8N8
I hate how all these kids are going out to play873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSew2PHIbj
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02007FQgDO
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPxrvcr499
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf0cDbxPkMi
Normalcy. Right. Well.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jZWv9QWfS
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZMYRrPsqno
But we’ve come a long way since that time–873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSqi3fqaK7
I hope to God, anyway.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2sEiCpOGF
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrHWRkX0g3
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoOx7QuvSY
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlhrXYD0DX
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyqL7ZgY7HN
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRODIdbut1
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCGeoO4wZv
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXvooeXXlE
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTeINZqZ9P
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDmFVIOay3
While the house around them burns to the ground873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv55lYkFx2h
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMKB1vsw7V
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1D5Rkf4hUy
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ddV9F0cVn
ALL lives matter? 873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzj5dkyJTr
F*cking prove it.873Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9naRHB5T3s
