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/16.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fbeUjfPIS
I hate how everyone wants to pretend everything’s been all right all along918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6V17B6sDW
Like a third of the country isn’t meeting the end of their lives in the wrong918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq711sDuyIc
How they can take a single, powerful “Matter”918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNrpv5YRdd
And turn into a rug when it should be a banner!918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESX1pFpJoE
They just sweep up problems as if they never existed918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9LVwZDp1R
When the best we on the high ground can do is assist instead of918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTmJGaGk3E
Resisting and desisting,918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZWE5BUnj0
Meanwhile everyone else fights to simply live with everything they are–their whole might!918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2riFZa7FY
And they still all fall on the wayside918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJccl4rz8K
I hate how all these kids are going out to play918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRuLlCMApr
While gunshots reign and dirty water sprays and everyone’s praying, but nobody saves–!918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuStogy4G7
But that’s a normal day for this neighborhood.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCb0c5Uhcv
And that sentence right there is meant to sit well, be chewed, and understood.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDYXWzhRTo
Normalcy. Right. Well.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3uDYUqFYcO
There was this "normal" idea at the beginning of this country’s life that “all men are equal"–except some of them.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSwNtJsGKY
But we’ve come a long way since that time–918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBhkrued1u
I hope to God, anyway.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCP7xmhpkWT
So when a third of this country is being swept under the rug918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOmvfXCc3l
I hope that doesn’t sit well with all, if not some.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YNlBfREsB
There are no exceptions. No exemptions. Everyone is included now.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hEbyjEoT5
Natives. Blacks. Hispanics. Even the Black and Hispanic cops.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4oRpCBX6C
Out there living their free lives–Everyone getting shot.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0OjWvxs9lc
–BAM BAM–For one reason or another918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6cuqyYOzh
Brothers and sisters split. Mothers and fathers bereft of their children just quit.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMxImlMTE1
And people wonder why the city goes to shit.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Epxgs9Ykv
People like to pretend, “Oh nothing’s wrong. Look about!”918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3EYPRdRzG
While the house around them burns to the ground918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjWXXdBflV
But so help me God, if another one comes to my door with:918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45xPZYXpzb
“Not just Black people–All lives matter! Take down that sign–just move it!"918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdkPMZ7m3IC
I’ll... (makes pounding fist motions, then restrains self)918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRXKM1nJcX
ALL lives matter? 918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XKmztpJFW
F*cking prove it.918Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6HHhW2qfs
