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/16.655Please respect copyright.PENANAYKIvrPyeOV
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along655Please respect copyright.PENANAmcWzZpTGlq
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong655Please respect copyright.PENANA6Iv4xll1za
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”655Please respect copyright.PENANAz9FIuxFjxF
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!655Please respect copyright.PENANA7uI7IOHewI
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed655Please respect copyright.PENANAKcWIUUCgqU
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of655Please respect copyright.PENANAKrpodgGeBb
Resisting and desisting,655Please respect copyright.PENANAWp3n1Ig2fm
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!655Please respect copyright.PENANArdZHOKL7du
And they still all fall on the wayside655Please respect copyright.PENANAsuaJH5u3Yp
I hate how all these kids are going out to play655Please respect copyright.PENANA8AUa1PdB06
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!655Please respect copyright.PENANA6CoWWRkOPJ
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.655Please respect copyright.PENANAMORt0wZOdD
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.655Please respect copyright.PENANABKpMBSzdY5
Normalcy. Right. Well.655Please respect copyright.PENANAP2wBWYnEYg
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.655Please respect copyright.PENANAvLYLLyPkQM
But we’ve come a long way since that time–655Please respect copyright.PENANAcrtIWpS0bF
I hope to God, anyway.655Please respect copyright.PENANAElgrSBQrVT
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug655Please respect copyright.PENANAoeSnLcCcZB
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.655Please respect copyright.PENANAANxQiYmd5N
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.655Please respect copyright.PENANAj2zVe4kYo6
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.655Please respect copyright.PENANArSnYEwwE3g
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.655Please respect copyright.PENANAGWgTmVyJka
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another655Please respect copyright.PENANAeeAnO0ThVM
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.655Please respect copyright.PENANA0q95yA7FvP
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.655Please respect copyright.PENANA7DW7KA33IB
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”655Please respect copyright.PENANA6X8aZLt8Rm
While the house around them burns to the ground655Please respect copyright.PENANAF0bYXB4kVt
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:655Please respect copyright.PENANAcAbdUJBjxX
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"655Please respect copyright.PENANAh7HKfSY7Nu
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)655Please respect copyright.PENANABKVUa9mGUl
ALL lives matter? 655Please respect copyright.PENANAJKjj1Fcfzp
F*cking prove it.655Please respect copyright.PENANAaqHmXaUc5K