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
然後按「加至主畫面」