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/16.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSrpXgW2sd
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3KdQGzcNN
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpdOyUgzBr
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEfOhoF7vU
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dOD8Q0wTI
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvP5y685ssI
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aaQQDalVw
Resisting and desisting,813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOgV9k2eZr
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdVe853pEH
And they still all fall on the wayside813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogEIokyO6F
I hate how all these kids are going out to play813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmKonrvPAS
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnFPJUNZfN
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8r637R2mQ
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNtGQk6OilQ
Normalcy. Right. Well.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21zm6E9p2X
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiuYkkaalj
But we’ve come a long way since that time–813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8gUAu4Dm8
I hope to God, anyway.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHJuOxCJFS
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7V4SUHo1x
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFUjrcKmZNv
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFktFOOXORe
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJApcyOBT9
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ78LeuxuUdr
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RRYXoKwRi
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5GlAvdHJ1
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeqswN3xoHF
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1b52nWJ3fA
While the house around them burns to the ground813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVE5jqShTEy
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ74Pc28gRU
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPObbLm8qA
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIHkcXJJdi
ALL lives matter? 813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SZMonYdfO
F*cking prove it.813Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNy2iPM1I8E
