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/16.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQOYJH5fVfJ
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNke0OUJ1b3
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49Icy04W5n
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77vycb98S1
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgZeMobOrU
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4bcg39oYC
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEvMaPdixL
Resisting and desisting,917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjsRAmjJ1a
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiUBhEh5XK
And they still all fall on the wayside917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2pyEf1jlh
I hate how all these kids are going out to play917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡluU022jJtB
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgwy5xGSUe
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡENR1TOEqsY
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRw85zO0T9A
Normalcy. Right. Well.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2K7WwQwsD9
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8CUMhgEmU
But we’ve come a long way since that time–917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYedLC9UkP
I hope to God, anyway.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6Tn8WMynq
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Eo7siVn66
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCKAvF8IjS
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawX03HeKBu
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSxaDQ9cIII
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3bUtbWdhyx
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCX7GTcvOqN
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADyPCzxXrh
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaxIrXM1T0
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5xBrq60md
While the house around them burns to the ground917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDUJf7eMIC
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZQO0DfMBp
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTli6oo2isn
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1tQs5gktn
ALL lives matter? 917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypoNH00KzQ
F*cking prove it.917Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUXnfWoWQK
