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/16.622Please respect copyright.PENANAJWdvJgaFZK
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along622Please respect copyright.PENANAzSTXbE0f65
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong622Please respect copyright.PENANAFNTLDj8aO8
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”622Please respect copyright.PENANAN0MAZiqUs2
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!622Please respect copyright.PENANA2oe1BQi3Dx
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed622Please respect copyright.PENANANQVuN8i2Yl
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of622Please respect copyright.PENANAbvXPEzTSE8
Resisting and desisting,622Please respect copyright.PENANA07ijO0Pki5
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!622Please respect copyright.PENANAOz3EXRAAvO
And they still all fall on the wayside622Please respect copyright.PENANAl7f8KlYyJd
I hate how all these kids are going out to play622Please respect copyright.PENANAf1LawtXunp
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!622Please respect copyright.PENANAXYESYR4knH
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.622Please respect copyright.PENANAqR2dl9NBuT
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.622Please respect copyright.PENANAL4BvWjzNKG
Normalcy. Right. Well.622Please respect copyright.PENANAhhsPLFyyAg
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.622Please respect copyright.PENANAFYSOvD15yf
But we’ve come a long way since that time–622Please respect copyright.PENANABoPj54AflN
I hope to God, anyway.622Please respect copyright.PENANACI07lCG3bG
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug622Please respect copyright.PENANAuBK2I1FZdr
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.622Please respect copyright.PENANAJAwC3IHcDy
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.622Please respect copyright.PENANAtT126fBAGi
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.622Please respect copyright.PENANAmnRLYB06TZ
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.622Please respect copyright.PENANAU80qGG2yvm
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another622Please respect copyright.PENANA2dXWhQV49N
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.622Please respect copyright.PENANATZ7h4DWgjg
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.622Please respect copyright.PENANAHTre0XVO0M
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”622Please respect copyright.PENANANq6KBUoRSr
While the house around them burns to the ground622Please respect copyright.PENANASf07TsvEpN
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:622Please respect copyright.PENANAr5cnCWD28G
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"622Please respect copyright.PENANAqMHPkoB0rt
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)622Please respect copyright.PENANAx8FJEWAStz
ALL lives matter? 622Please respect copyright.PENANAsJNxjQKJAt
F*cking prove it.622Please respect copyright.PENANAYsBdnWWnui