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/16.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmpuljkwDi
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jjs4L3N2Z
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyChDFedzM
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuXN58psWr
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMczzQ11aDd
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5zS2z2fZTI
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrV3wnSlLoq
Resisting and desisting,815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBlEXLNrhR
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKZlPI0dF9
And they still all fall on the wayside815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Yf99WZAuT
I hate how all these kids are going out to play815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8cHAQ2gqQ
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwtEzBZp81
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauXiLwT2Da
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLk5Qgdy7Vs
Normalcy. Right. Well.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbWrogenfbv
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqKoSH1HOd
But we’ve come a long way since that time–815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRULyhSsZe
I hope to God, anyway.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMM2mWNqqQ
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfis0UXfjnJ
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnfSZrbHlL
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2IvJkZH7k
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugHNhxnGPg
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqkfI5M2aS
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3plgwctO5b
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMu7b6xbLzY
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2BBmcfvDy
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZGbDIbS0S
While the house around them burns to the ground815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1yfSuNWIP
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepLBslWEYv
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TkChdSFhb
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjyqvUHNqf
ALL lives matter? 815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRrkdxKTl0z
F*cking prove it.815Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJeO9NQuOO
然後按「加至主畫面」