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/16.659Please respect copyright.PENANAuPreersptB
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along659Please respect copyright.PENANAzYMeRzaUdE
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong659Please respect copyright.PENANA5wm81K9kIL
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”659Please respect copyright.PENANAUrcpHwrtzM
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!659Please respect copyright.PENANAaXJGnpzYn9
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed659Please respect copyright.PENANA7CTfyaeE1a
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of659Please respect copyright.PENANAEDg6j0seeY
Resisting and desisting,659Please respect copyright.PENANAUaMlmag4m3
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!659Please respect copyright.PENANAAujKAMJ0BG
And they still all fall on the wayside659Please respect copyright.PENANALi0eZXdxQS
I hate how all these kids are going out to play659Please respect copyright.PENANA3mE6ZPeWar
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!659Please respect copyright.PENANAulDEFXrfRI
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.659Please respect copyright.PENANAz4hLTHGAVy
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.659Please respect copyright.PENANAc1bIuUGSvE
Normalcy. Right. Well.659Please respect copyright.PENANAn4YDlnOVIu
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.659Please respect copyright.PENANA5kz1BBvSEB
But we’ve come a long way since that time–659Please respect copyright.PENANAaUOYMrVjbp
I hope to God, anyway.659Please respect copyright.PENANAxR8H3ZJsp4
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug659Please respect copyright.PENANAp9j4FcH0Me
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.659Please respect copyright.PENANAidjAza2JyB
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.659Please respect copyright.PENANAe9FLG1nbwc
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.659Please respect copyright.PENANA3Mjt022XVg
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.659Please respect copyright.PENANAr3DukRg22S
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another659Please respect copyright.PENANA8xUfghI8jO
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.659Please respect copyright.PENANA0QU6M5FUuL
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.659Please respect copyright.PENANAC4N8kWRpa5
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”659Please respect copyright.PENANA4FHKyyynYh
While the house around them burns to the ground659Please respect copyright.PENANAWFOkCyQgfc
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:659Please respect copyright.PENANAb2LtXkWjyK
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"659Please respect copyright.PENANAotrWCn8iyp
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)659Please respect copyright.PENANAr8DXc0zNxs
ALL lives matter? 659Please respect copyright.PENANA2oOY10rnMM
F*cking prove it.659Please respect copyright.PENANA0OvkRCtExJ