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/16.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluYhufewij
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHn0jXCv7DX
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbPzIngukZ
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuCRYTvxOP
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmO4A0ANmYV
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLH1hARatC
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpn2vgFZrf5
Resisting and desisting,844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXwrbXIPFw
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFj1USimlT5
And they still all fall on the wayside844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIRXdTEmM7
I hate how all these kids are going out to play844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyorAyH4lm
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfueSIffKeH
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wrC2P0V7f
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyjevQt6I2
Normalcy. Right. Well.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMatUAjZ7p
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXcsgPYgYHa
But we’ve come a long way since that time–844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS9iDYD11ut
I hope to God, anyway.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7c63s9cGCQ
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCClm5Fuhox
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vAM6z9DaW
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx4xcrcBYIz
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIOMCek0Dg
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡveJqHYVgL9
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsBbYLEd5G
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjLcaVSF41
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHdw9bajr6
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMWrFJdZW6
While the house around them burns to the ground844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2P6U4Mv3Sf
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPxDsNUzC9
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNFEjT8E9x
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoS0QkTvOEH
ALL lives matter? 844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WJhUu2hv3
F*cking prove it.844Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqPj3BKsyn
然後按「加至主畫面」