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/16.656Please respect copyright.PENANAHpqwnyv5fT
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along656Please respect copyright.PENANAFRP7xh041O
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong656Please respect copyright.PENANAFJ9aLUFHNN
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”656Please respect copyright.PENANAzh4aeOnNyI
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!656Please respect copyright.PENANAV3mh1XZoZ8
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed656Please respect copyright.PENANAtnrqIE3yTl
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of656Please respect copyright.PENANAbVJyad8QjK
Resisting and desisting,656Please respect copyright.PENANApytqb39Nak
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!656Please respect copyright.PENANAi8oEux7WGu
And they still all fall on the wayside656Please respect copyright.PENANAWYwR1gjOuX
I hate how all these kids are going out to play656Please respect copyright.PENANA7JucixFjHi
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!656Please respect copyright.PENANAH7jjol3mnE
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.656Please respect copyright.PENANAetmFBqeefd
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.656Please respect copyright.PENANAtkEGV447u3
Normalcy. Right. Well.656Please respect copyright.PENANA5sXzbBEYBk
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.656Please respect copyright.PENANAP4cv7LEkJz
But we’ve come a long way since that time–656Please respect copyright.PENANAE9YE4LW6nz
I hope to God, anyway.656Please respect copyright.PENANALMEdORnDqt
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug656Please respect copyright.PENANA4i1ul0LWEe
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.656Please respect copyright.PENANASOLQqAwmVk
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.656Please respect copyright.PENANAZibc75oPpo
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.656Please respect copyright.PENANAqz7IofDSga
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.656Please respect copyright.PENANANabJ7MPFzU
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another656Please respect copyright.PENANA8bddpjaK7z
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.656Please respect copyright.PENANAA87JGkAKqq
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.656Please respect copyright.PENANAPXkAOIeexF
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”656Please respect copyright.PENANAjDkMinUiyK
While the house around them burns to the ground656Please respect copyright.PENANAl3tkSkkM3F
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:656Please respect copyright.PENANAnIlDS0tDhI
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"656Please respect copyright.PENANAoUbOUYTRd9
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)656Please respect copyright.PENANAPSAqF3RZXy
ALL lives matter? 656Please respect copyright.PENANAGJMLSH1E4W
F*cking prove it.656Please respect copyright.PENANAgktZgGfF1j