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/16.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUd285Nple
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9N9uBMYUvM
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7l9zSFPSU
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOiiWWwudz
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4VY6w7996
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiBPsQaNgQ
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKE83wZJ89T
Resisting and desisting,851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftiJs4X6dZ
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNru02bgZp7
And they still all fall on the wayside851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGc8BUxBwY
I hate how all these kids are going out to play851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtlyiMaHwQ
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DSOt9HinT
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOU7NesN3c
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKwyPKNedz
Normalcy. Right. Well.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgNw2ycYZA
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMpGwFqMhug
But we’ve come a long way since that time–851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmQtIIMtue
I hope to God, anyway.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqm3gIesQQQ
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBf1o9VGak
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjU1IQCeOX8
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJRIP7HQtHD
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLppN0TcOAy
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6ogkjvaRO
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZH7VQll14A
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl81U7amNJg
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFJQh616w6
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIFi2jOhKJ
While the house around them burns to the ground851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLm5jZTHhew
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14TdH7pz5W
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUXqTBA6Pn
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUvzYeejqp
ALL lives matter? 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuAALbPK0sp
F*cking prove it.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjtUeMNWfv
