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/16.647Please respect copyright.PENANA7gfHYLlzVi
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along647Please respect copyright.PENANAmoFeg5JLqq
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong647Please respect copyright.PENANAiFmIKJf8d1
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”647Please respect copyright.PENANASwLIPDeGGm
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!647Please respect copyright.PENANAYMxEDiAdNE
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed647Please respect copyright.PENANAikrlAD2Xc5
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of647Please respect copyright.PENANAaNFn0bPACp
Resisting and desisting,647Please respect copyright.PENANArWjxDfBs4b
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!647Please respect copyright.PENANAbo148ExDnz
And they still all fall on the wayside647Please respect copyright.PENANAbY27wgrRQp
I hate how all these kids are going out to play647Please respect copyright.PENANARMmmI81InU
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!647Please respect copyright.PENANA5lwEYJXuXx
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.647Please respect copyright.PENANA8P9JtGHyJK
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.647Please respect copyright.PENANAq4UJyunSY3
Normalcy. Right. Well.647Please respect copyright.PENANA7AWMhrH2f9
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.647Please respect copyright.PENANAEiHcTDxXMC
But we’ve come a long way since that time–647Please respect copyright.PENANAPIIanTAUJb
I hope to God, anyway.647Please respect copyright.PENANAFmNQOCN7Bi
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug647Please respect copyright.PENANAtlYogDWghj
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.647Please respect copyright.PENANA7fNqMsUfCN
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.647Please respect copyright.PENANATH59aYCNXd
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.647Please respect copyright.PENANAoNtYy8EVCW
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.647Please respect copyright.PENANAjQyLTPXQ46
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another647Please respect copyright.PENANAY9YxmwC7xa
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.647Please respect copyright.PENANAesVntlX6DX
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.647Please respect copyright.PENANA39LGAT6Ito
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”647Please respect copyright.PENANA0p3hfm0Sn4
While the house around them burns to the ground647Please respect copyright.PENANA47CNQCkfbQ
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:647Please respect copyright.PENANAOUAff4J5rK
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"647Please respect copyright.PENANAJbuWAknQaL
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)647Please respect copyright.PENANAE8pI7LZi8Z
ALL lives matter? 647Please respect copyright.PENANAJuYd3JoVZe
F*cking prove it.647Please respect copyright.PENANAuQc4l1drRm