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/16.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabTqFL5opc
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tehQ8KPk7
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8COdtY8HCp
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPGQEzEfZe
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9kVtvbPnu
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLnDnSMVix
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd64U75zX6a
Resisting and desisting,840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NkmyjQNj6
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGdr61PLNjs
And they still all fall on the wayside840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF1oY6t4cp
I hate how all these kids are going out to play840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHVyXaWesjZ
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mq9CiThFU
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71DelYtxsx
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl78YoXhnds
Normalcy. Right. Well.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6S9aWJdW5W
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvql3xwCgdF
But we’ve come a long way since that time–840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5YSgSH8hT
I hope to God, anyway.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZSANUg8lol
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXuAxV8XWU
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwyXWHpSKO
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtiVyhZ9jtB
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Z9Yzjstms
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPP4t1z05W
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBRWCBLu2W
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlePbdazFA
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQPHcKHPqO
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2UUny7XPX
While the house around them burns to the ground840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2e7JtlAxK
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtjpi0cpVVQ
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdA9oplKRZe
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY36AyxS2Ki
ALL lives matter? 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCJSkVIXTW
F*cking prove it.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcuz4UaA03j
然後按「加至主畫面」