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A Type of Sugar
03:31
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The Heroin
03:17
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Morpheus Weaponized
03:39
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GHB
02:55
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Made of Car Crashes
03:05
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An Apology to Sera
03:05
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Cracked
04:36
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How to Hold
02:10
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Pardon My Apocalypse
02:25
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"I Do"
03:41
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Come On Pen
02:08
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Come On Pen
by RJ Walker
Go pen!
Fly!
Up up and away pen!
Come on Pen.
Come on Pen, you got this.
Move goddammit.
I need you to do something.
There is a boy bleeding to death
in my arms
and we are locked
in the back of an ambulance.
I need you to write me a key
or at least a crowbar
or something.
Just write me something.
Something I can use.
Get these emergencies out of me.
Come on Pen,
hustle goddamit.
Write me a dialysis machine
to scrub all this nightmare
out of my blood.
Become a needle.
Become a shovel
Dig these corpses out of me.
Just fucking do something!
Behind my eyes
there is a 15 year old girl named Helpless
she is overdosing on anti-depressants
and playing with her dead dog
in a room that looks an awful lot like mine
and this ambulance
isn’t fast enough
so write me an Engine that runs on Jesus.
Write me a Jesus that doesn’t run on death and taxes.
Write me a chest that isn’t shaped like a prison for my heart.
Get it out.
Get them out.
These kids with cancer
kids with guns
kids with dead parents.
I can’t do this by myself.
It makes my hands feel like a stabbing victim.
Goddammit Pen.
Why are you so fucking useless.
Why can’t you write haunted houses
into bounce houses.
Why can’t you fix anything.
No matter how hard you try,
no matter what you write
or how loud
Gunshots don't sound like piano keys,
the tanks never run out of gas,
and bombs still turn people into firewood.
All you do is dance like a drunk phlebotomist
and bleed pretty all over the corpses of trees.
Just do something useful for once!
Do something!
And my Pen said
this poem
right back to me.
Come on, RJ
Do something.
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RJ Walker Salt Lake City, Utah
RJ Walker is a Professional Presenter and Spoken Word artist on Salt Lake City, Utah. "What's a spoken word artist?" you may be thinking. Well, RJ Walker is proficient in multiple mediums of spoken word. Voice Over, Voice Acting, Creative Writing, Storytelling, Theatre, Performance (slam) Poetry. He also has experience as a Pitch Artist, and Product Demonstrator. ... more
RJ Walker recommends:
Truly an excellent poetry album. Holler is the album that inspired me to create my own.
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