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