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/16.634Please respect copyright.PENANAdfuisJXuar
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along634Please respect copyright.PENANAJI9Tg3wjbR
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong634Please respect copyright.PENANAkDiru3tORN
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”634Please respect copyright.PENANA0eOkSUtLJX
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!634Please respect copyright.PENANAMiBCROPSZg
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed634Please respect copyright.PENANAnxVFMJBEJk
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of634Please respect copyright.PENANA0MczENVUXY
Resisting and desisting,634Please respect copyright.PENANA9p1QUKMGwY
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!634Please respect copyright.PENANAVe1WIEflg2
And they still all fall on the wayside634Please respect copyright.PENANAc1CoeVDu6Z
I hate how all these kids are going out to play634Please respect copyright.PENANAdVhUa5IpQx
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!634Please respect copyright.PENANADuCtcwAymT
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.634Please respect copyright.PENANABieVMeIkY2
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.634Please respect copyright.PENANAlC2Yd6XKOg
Normalcy. Right. Well.634Please respect copyright.PENANALphvdjOgvb
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.634Please respect copyright.PENANAUAXTYAyFbt
But we’ve come a long way since that time–634Please respect copyright.PENANAw9SkJ0tOQP
I hope to God, anyway.634Please respect copyright.PENANARO7PoKKTvI
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug634Please respect copyright.PENANAlILbS4sDFl
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.634Please respect copyright.PENANA1RIK24hCPE
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.634Please respect copyright.PENANAx6kQ9aRK6G
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.634Please respect copyright.PENANAt2e6cThmXs
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.634Please respect copyright.PENANAfqCyC7Sno6
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another634Please respect copyright.PENANAitMH4kAIMQ
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.634Please respect copyright.PENANA5aNwLPSS7F
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.634Please respect copyright.PENANAiArp3jLJMj
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”634Please respect copyright.PENANAjXNPiul8Hi
While the house around them burns to the ground634Please respect copyright.PENANAxOzBGCmmQG
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:634Please respect copyright.PENANAANUciCPdRF
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"634Please respect copyright.PENANA2rj7FlafnM
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)634Please respect copyright.PENANAGiMkRkx2k3
ALL lives matter? 634Please respect copyright.PENANAgfZbhz3xe0
F*cking prove it.634Please respect copyright.PENANAghjfPN6KBK