your use of blank space and crowded words with punctuation that truly punctuates is a revelation. love the words you've created: bad‘reams and the use of the ampersand is flawless. Love "i will not hold my lions in" congrats on a truly unique creation!

The author's note totally sends this on a different mission. Excellent!

Something in your writing really finds an echo that resonates between my ears. My absolute favorite line loveitloveitloveit
Dear LongLostLove,
if i don’t kill ev’rything in the room, we’ll have surprises as dinnerguests.
Definitely a favorite I will return to when I hunger to hear the lion roar.

I want to keep this poem. Definitely in my favorites, and more, wrap up in it. Why? Because especially the power of "love like violence". This is so aptly, clearly, passionately said, and what I think is the core of transformation. So vital so important!! There are so many brilliant finely tuned meldings, dueted words and concepts that it melts me thoroughly. Your fine punctuated, unpuncuated collisions... I love "if you sleeponthem". And you perform the "sinkthru invest the flesh in the body slay those devils". Fantastic.

"love like violence; do it with caring, with substance, in armor. strike" -- i'm at the point where i no longer know what to say about your work. it speaks for itself. i'm no critic, i'm a fan. you convey ideas so well without ever having to spell them out. with each you new piece you earn more and more of my admiration.

Aha! Finally! Some angry ladyslashing! This is such a different, bitter taste of S.K. - and it's absolutely delicious. That first stanza was powerful - and set the entire tone for me as a reader. Got me hooked immediately. I'm glad to see you trying out some new stuff, Steven. It's not unrecognizable, either. Still that Kenworthy eloquence. And abbreviations and such. Fantastico Piece! Thumbs up!

I think we should get married.

When I read the Author's note I got scared. S.K., I think you need some serious psychological counseling, and watch those fava beans! Excellent piece!

Hmmm, the total release - the insides out, almost a spiritual cleansing here on one level. "eat every beast on the scene" - pretty much says it all - close to the feel of being in the same room with a berserker, yet kept in check enough to allow our eyes to read the love. (wild, man!)

Captivating style at work here carrying a strong message; Shakespearean in its own way; reminded me of "unleash the dogs of war." Well worth the read and worthy of further study...meditation.

Fantastic! The images in here either feel like Fantasia or a dragon movie, or maybe both combined with a wonderful lack of editing. These images played through my mind alternating between uncertainty and reassurance. Punctuation, form, space,and imagery make this a unique declaration of love. WOW!
~Chelle~

i'm loopy today, but here's my best take - incredible, searing, harshlove, whoa. many fave lines, like muscle& faith ripping away....and the open space that follows is at once both shocking and inventive -- what are we when we are ripped bare? the emptiness here is so vast and frightening. who does not fear emptiness, the lack of drama? words to fill, to insulate from the true heart? and then you turn empty on its head and fulfill, with verbosity, squished words squashed with abbreviations to rush forth all that MUST be said NOWNOWRIGHTNOWpainoflife.... you can’t stop me my scythe. i wrote this nightmare for you, in the cold. in your worst field, surprises as dinnerguests....and really the entire Dear LongLostLove stanza,..and of particular note -- love like violence; do it with caring, with substance, in armor. strike...love and violence. disturbing. how would our world be if we love the way we kill? and, the passion of anger, so universal, and yet i don't quite get it yet. i have a taste of it on my tongue,,,i'll have to read this many more times. GOING IN FAVORITES! the film, your body of work, is fully developed, but the lesson has not become clear to me, yet. for anyone who's been in a darkroom, you know what it's like, to print. this is how it feels. that grand. i know your process having worked with you before, and i love the RAWNESS, and you do it in one take, like a brilliant actor in a monologue and you, yes, you, should have been born before this time, brilliant beat poet. HOWEVER, i have been to slams and you've got slam all through you. rap, read, invent, perform. do it, and for the fortunate to witness your way, what an honor that would be. enjoying the swim in your ever deepening pools, my friend...ooo's PK

Congratulations on #1. ;-)

Hey, you're #1. Congrats!

And you are still worthily #1, Sir Kenworthy, Knight of the profound fable!

shikes! Pure incredible genius writing!

Great images & language. I especially like "fly your own saidjet :battletestedheart." And this image intrigues me "villains can soar and take everything. if you sleeponthem." Nice job, SK! :)

i love how the images are so fast paced - brillianttttt

you portray violence and tenderness and beauty all beside one another, and they don't cancel each other out. they are all supporting actors to one another... and then you sprinkle in some Dali surrealism and fantasy and whala! epic.