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/16.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm20Bm02ne8
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5lyMXB7X4
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpG2pvSAByA
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTxU5zNrfD
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAAk9hGSudQ
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDECg2fxCSh
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnkUZqnycY
Resisting and desisting,759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2K481zv62x
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiDBDV7YHK
And they still all fall on the wayside759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiDR2MdsmsR
I hate how all these kids are going out to play759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5eiggYBIrz
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHgEtH5kvB
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0NzYmud5O
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3axf9zO9S
Normalcy. Right. Well.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyIHXRCjNt
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLAoWhddAc
But we’ve come a long way since that time–759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFRRY9h380n
I hope to God, anyway.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3o11uKEsB
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoudfkGFhe
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRvrhEeMdXW
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmg3qW7l70
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAgCMx68IMF
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteybuOQ0gQ
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyR3F29WQaJ
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmk5GIm9ang
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm1RJX6436Z
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOH9ForTA7
While the house around them burns to the ground759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8RboNtze6W
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDAABecJBv
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UePViySxX
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSa8rl0jTdE
ALL lives matter? 759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDjUi0dzCM
F*cking prove it.759Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JhTyAPwlF
