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/16.646Please respect copyright.PENANA98CMPJBW69
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along646Please respect copyright.PENANAECx0zY7fXM
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong646Please respect copyright.PENANAjlGHhPWGJG
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”646Please respect copyright.PENANACY1VHVw8wI
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!646Please respect copyright.PENANAFbIIPVN6ZR
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed646Please respect copyright.PENANAbOCd9eivdA
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of646Please respect copyright.PENANADbDBPECDwZ
Resisting and desisting,646Please respect copyright.PENANAZYwgGltAIz
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!646Please respect copyright.PENANATSIUlmAwcU
And they still all fall on the wayside646Please respect copyright.PENANA0hAOknQIOc
I hate how all these kids are going out to play646Please respect copyright.PENANA39gDk9UYQn
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!646Please respect copyright.PENANAhmE9BV5eLV
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.646Please respect copyright.PENANAH1NAzgTkdV
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.646Please respect copyright.PENANAZ235ecMgyc
Normalcy. Right. Well.646Please respect copyright.PENANAqqP8QvyKq2
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.646Please respect copyright.PENANAfv7cGFtym7
But we’ve come a long way since that time–646Please respect copyright.PENANAaNsyo7JBfB
I hope to God, anyway.646Please respect copyright.PENANADPBoY5HfZe
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug646Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0657KSyDL
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.646Please respect copyright.PENANA6fEbhuYQpx
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.646Please respect copyright.PENANAI3p91VHLqh
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.646Please respect copyright.PENANAkYusyPkFLL
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.646Please respect copyright.PENANAutJfNqaRV2
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another646Please respect copyright.PENANAyU4j6AtK46
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.646Please respect copyright.PENANAKG2LTYCnUL
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.646Please respect copyright.PENANAUzIfmLIsJi
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”646Please respect copyright.PENANAIEVLlYUxrp
While the house around them burns to the ground646Please respect copyright.PENANApQZPx1lM0Z
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:646Please respect copyright.PENANA8gELo4mBtO
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"646Please respect copyright.PENANA4M0rxgBfsf
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)646Please respect copyright.PENANAHSgobtxvKN
ALL lives matter? 646Please respect copyright.PENANAmab4vc6LKs
F*cking prove it.646Please respect copyright.PENANAG4CLHcjt2n