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/16.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXy991t8Toj
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJbt6e6HCL
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhLfHC5kRU
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO24j5Hg0dv
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47x7XZxu8u
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1udO0zaX3
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeRgUx3Tqk
Resisting and desisting,631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuubRjsJgBU
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZtrCLuK73
And they still all fall on the wayside631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmkwvPiMom
I hate how all these kids are going out to play631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6QcnF1a3t
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECDNvkP6Gq
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVfCa8lyNo
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDSG4I9USs
Normalcy. Right. Well.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzApItqt59a
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBvfuVymEt
But we’ve come a long way since that time–631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QDKHtrCr1
I hope to God, anyway.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD3KZiWXKuH
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHvxpDfEMj
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfZuSSK8UD
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJeXDnMctK
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiklhIlSWe
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQ3N3E6P8m
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKlt7CAkDn
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP80eqEF1L4
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCN4BnCLOC
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8nNyatYxh
While the house around them burns to the ground631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrKm8RSpcT
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiTimKEf0H
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJMvrIBgqt
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC94klxg1yT
ALL lives matter? 631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqKXpwHJKZ
F*cking prove it.631Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREjFuuFDzt
and then Add to home screen.