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/16.648Please respect copyright.PENANAaSQILhyZ27
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along648Please respect copyright.PENANAFlfJIRqILE
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong648Please respect copyright.PENANAwcGaVUN3e2
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”648Please respect copyright.PENANAvS6lI9iDvA
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!648Please respect copyright.PENANA8FPhkmkMbN
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed648Please respect copyright.PENANAgOkBZHdiXm
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of648Please respect copyright.PENANAEL43QOYg4c
Resisting and desisting,648Please respect copyright.PENANA2z6nG1D5IM
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!648Please respect copyright.PENANA18ge9YYfy3
And they still all fall on the wayside648Please respect copyright.PENANA4GxkpucX19
I hate how all these kids are going out to play648Please respect copyright.PENANAlOq9XyyKq7
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!648Please respect copyright.PENANABgNEOskIyl
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.648Please respect copyright.PENANAvXqAVQVHan
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.648Please respect copyright.PENANALVgvadmZAD
Normalcy. Right. Well.648Please respect copyright.PENANAa5c0RtuqBp
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.648Please respect copyright.PENANAKyyW9iQiJ9
But we’ve come a long way since that time–648Please respect copyright.PENANAMXZlpG518W
I hope to God, anyway.648Please respect copyright.PENANAyNMIMKaRLJ
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug648Please respect copyright.PENANAM4iKN6LzJZ
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.648Please respect copyright.PENANA5P6kmqb01D
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.648Please respect copyright.PENANAuggnpMcQ0h
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.648Please respect copyright.PENANAgSpOudqDgq
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.648Please respect copyright.PENANAi8NB2NIHm3
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another648Please respect copyright.PENANAVel4b6ZNaN
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.648Please respect copyright.PENANAKn10t41sPp
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.648Please respect copyright.PENANAvG6OV6Pcwi
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”648Please respect copyright.PENANAwgVDzDxOl3
While the house around them burns to the ground648Please respect copyright.PENANAagleWk2bEh
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:648Please respect copyright.PENANANbVjT34j0n
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"648Please respect copyright.PENANAjN5KhIy5Dr
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)648Please respect copyright.PENANAXqu2GvMRFu
ALL lives matter? 648Please respect copyright.PENANA7AjD48iFEz
F*cking prove it.648Please respect copyright.PENANAdmksMo33X9