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/16.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPjLY4pSke
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukGuyXvp1D
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSer58y5uL
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtpuSZMUaf
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡti9EFKVLXL
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5vngmKYvf
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwFpVy6dRG0
Resisting and desisting,943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZ7rZbYhjx
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDwQnXU7jh
And they still all fall on the wayside943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzPmI1PCEp
I hate how all these kids are going out to play943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4O3Bhvvaw
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsD9UmTwA3T
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJqZf8HCPw
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0urOwY7t4y
Normalcy. Right. Well.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2l8oRreJv
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJRazdytZ8
But we’ve come a long way since that time–943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20l0PKnR3l
I hope to God, anyway.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOr9desty0
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73uDp9XI7L
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQg8zbZQwI
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4BpEiTGWk
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZlHLkJCuJ
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH3BYerenay
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjStMg8GYOR
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSS1lyG2n9l
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dIQKBauE9
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pEndKx0TK
While the house around them burns to the ground943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGgghOlU7a
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzE6eOSohmg
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwibg8ji95
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAXqUJ3BBb4
ALL lives matter? 943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjU4UoBQro
F*cking prove it.943Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGBk0EtDWY
然後按「加至主畫面」