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/16.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvefwCQa0qw
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I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtKIE1RPAG
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjMhQQ3Y6a
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5sealeHdC1
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGenTHK6PR
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfM0GgyKYrh
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1wg8V9uTHn
Resisting and desisting,487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsurdl0PZm4
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOSem9DJ2X
And they still all fall on the wayside487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUF5Lc1wIy
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I hate how all these kids are going out to play487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4BRfOMh4N
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVs6rX0Fzj
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sYEqqWd65
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYmY3NPH1w
Normalcy. Right. Well.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xZHJEnmyk
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNANfpSEm2
But we’ve come a long way since that time–487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF0K3diSDup
I hope to God, anyway.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡElHCTeMD6y
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So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWlB7BBo7Z
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNX63k7ZIW
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAF1GhQ1or
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1wt94RuDr
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7QmAlNZBb
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBrT2EpYbr7
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPLwNOqf0l
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ00lI97RSI3
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People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYNsRgLkYQy
While the house around them burns to the ground487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYriTRpT0rF
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllFJPDWUEf
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡns4ZpQCmlC
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUG207oncC
ALL lives matter? 487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeUO1XkKiS
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F*cking prove it.487Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9hMcCC9jGX
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