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/16.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXHfnqu4Om
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MBJ8dqDvN
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogMOsFfWEM
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfU9ppTX4t
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorhcd6i7VZ
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobJmvm5MOe
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNiljXe9F1
Resisting and desisting,919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27B5nNWYBs
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUD56PSMO6
And they still all fall on the wayside919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7F7Q0Q1yH
I hate how all these kids are going out to play919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdac0GdsZpS
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaLbCF6VYi
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLdMNI7MtY
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG46yHxJCEC
Normalcy. Right. Well.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dEnxxKYCN
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYdjOjjmHp
But we’ve come a long way since that time–919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtPtC3nc0Vp
I hope to God, anyway.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lh3ltk0vE
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHqv65Xh9w
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMS2fd4JLGQ
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsizrSJeHp2
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckWD8pwpNv
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwAsgoU5yd
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uKByoC47R
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4qiR0bIL8N
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTL49ArQ2qu
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkM9gaOk68
While the house around them burns to the ground919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TcVOhgjkA
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmE6nmJQBQr
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHVvlcbXyx
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0Vin1rEZG
ALL lives matter? 919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0tqhQlEBS
F*cking prove it.919Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh29Vh0XoOU
