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/16.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS4iVgVvLZg
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgFY35Liyn
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgGnu7KBpv
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9WGH65q72
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKVr18Icu3
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4OoQK0R6k
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdql5a75a1
Resisting and desisting,726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJ7PWXEbAj
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡilyLBWkiwm
And they still all fall on the wayside726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeE4lufb06
I hate how all these kids are going out to play726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqzEaymvRvp
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdGyytlGzA
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8Dx6AHKtp
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBD3EfmUs6
Normalcy. Right. Well.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGBuN3EhQU
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQNgatfDdK
But we’ve come a long way since that time–726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZYzMj7q35c
I hope to God, anyway.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPnumiru6q
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2KAlatsFj
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGnQOGi3H13
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXndwPsTkg4
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5EXqeeis3
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8XVaE1nU6
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyA7Zn9KUtv
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgeQjhmGlV
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7VCS7WwT84
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSDVZyExn5
While the house around them burns to the ground726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg6qmduaT0
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpR3IuglDXa
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrZFK9Ssz1
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSqIVjW70Z
ALL lives matter? 726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mGyPasPRs
F*cking prove it.726Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjpHSc6jcA
