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/16.940Please respect copyright.PENANAPo4uEAEVeo
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along940Please respect copyright.PENANA5JazYihIPI
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong940Please respect copyright.PENANAT5tqNazCnn
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”940Please respect copyright.PENANAZgZbk00Nki
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!940Please respect copyright.PENANAXD1mZrhyRq
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed940Please respect copyright.PENANAeL35sUUcrf
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of940Please respect copyright.PENANAW2Yt1mpFxa
Resisting and desisting,940Please respect copyright.PENANAOzq84sfrtg
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!940Please respect copyright.PENANAQcDnfKY3RQ
And they still all fall on the wayside940Please respect copyright.PENANAKRL79lc3fh
I hate how all these kids are going out to play940Please respect copyright.PENANAYKUFMnjijJ
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!940Please respect copyright.PENANA969314iZ8W
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.940Please respect copyright.PENANAYKxQ8x1STw
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.940Please respect copyright.PENANA174HtjFfu9
Normalcy. Right. Well.940Please respect copyright.PENANAl9m64vKBwm
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.940Please respect copyright.PENANALHQZxg4prL
But we’ve come a long way since that time–940Please respect copyright.PENANAYIxGCtODYh
I hope to God, anyway.940Please respect copyright.PENANApO5aCexsjA
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug940Please respect copyright.PENANAvH9fuFh9vB
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.940Please respect copyright.PENANAg5tOMmUP4X
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.940Please respect copyright.PENANASl5d4PQ0xg
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.940Please respect copyright.PENANALn23p0CRKo
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.940Please respect copyright.PENANAkD966gxvUg
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another940Please respect copyright.PENANAkkJwlC872R
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.940Please respect copyright.PENANAwaq0ePklE3
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.940Please respect copyright.PENANA3WDqjE8oQr
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”940Please respect copyright.PENANApoMIcFpX0O
While the house around them burns to the ground940Please respect copyright.PENANAHIFAhOr7Lt
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:940Please respect copyright.PENANAaXlTozDJoy
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"940Please respect copyright.PENANAS0Ro8E0rmQ
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)940Please respect copyright.PENANA3XGoHTncIJ
ALL lives matter? 940Please respect copyright.PENANAVGxSNROgzi
F*cking prove it.940Please respect copyright.PENANAKaRXGOwgHj