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Kenneth Springer May 2013
You were hovering over me,
Violently yearning
You whispered:
“gummy bears can’t dance salsa”
Under us the ground broke.
And the choreography was immaculate,
As we fell on one another
Weaving our morals on the last door we passed,
Before we made that right and went downstairs.  
The puddle fell under me— icing my back,
The fall silenced you’re moans,
while the silence started the quiver,
A treble in full effect.
You’re song was in windings as the prophetic tongue wandered.
Then they came to boast the steps,
But one after another their dance lay deaf
For gummy bears can’t dance salsa
When you’ve chewed off their legs.
2.1k · Jun 2013
Waking the Wolf
Kenneth Springer Jun 2013
I was asleep when you came in.
Wakening to the intoxicating tequila that drizzles from your mouth,
You've already managed to start the discussion
Combing you’re hands, lips and tongue to orchestrate
A stroke of genius in full consequence,
You now have my attention..

But you’re not alone,       
Putting on my glasses
I see you picked once again
Navigating takes four hands ya know.

Now choose:
A spin-cycle or tune up,
temporary vision, lost again.
Each of you raves,
You both used to dance.
Looking at each other,
synchronizing the helm.

Yearning for violence you scratch the flesh
That harbors you’re enthusiasm.
Backbiting lust and forceful appetite,
This is what happens when you
*Wake the Wolf.
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
Moons ago I smoked till the filter,
Drank Johnny’s backwash
And slept hungry.
How can you know an empty stomach,
Without dancing in Tampa for a buck fifty?
What’s for breakfast?
“cowboy killers.”
lunch I asked,
“Kentucky deluxe.”
Dinner?
“A bent Porto Rican kitten.”
But people are seasons
And springtime had come.
Now it’s easy, but still stiff.
In the end of the day.
ehh.
1.7k · Nov 2012
My Electric Pickle
Kenneth Springer Nov 2012
Its designed to deliver,
engineered to inspire.
Being powered by the energy of a coiled spring
and kept in motion by a complex
self-winding system,
relying on the natural movements of one's self.
It's rubbing elbows with rebels and royalty.
Introducing *** to Cola,
and creating a bathtub diver,
a daytime sleeper,
an organized mess.
Seems my shadow has kept busy.
It's my wild walkman,
my *electric pickle.
and yes..its about my ______
Kenneth Springer Mar 2013
She walks fast and breaths slow,
A fiddle player missing her index
She runs now, she was always running..

A side of a truth—her only ally

Her ***** were burnt blue
with the Greek fire that tingles further with saliva.
But not hers they said, for she was stained
****** to purification through pain.

Her pain was sheer existence.
Every breath hurting more and hurting less
Continual life leading to death.
She is the morality of lust,
the end of a beginning..
1.5k · Jun 2013
Exploring blank pages
Kenneth Springer Jun 2013
She wants to know me,
Whisper secrets down my throat.
But like so many before..
I don’t see her name, but,
I know everything about her.
I discern her independent thoughts
Her politely rebellious acts of defiance,
How she shops at thrift stores
Wearing old tank-tops to complement her Chanel,
Paints her nails black and her index red.
I know she says this,
but really wants that.
I know what makes her toes curl
I know what she likes
And how she likes it.
I read her like an open book,
Bold font size 45.
She wants to know me,
To explore ourselves together.
But I recognize her from afar,
So how could she ever know me…
i wish i could look past certain things and just be happy. but my artistic eye, the same eye that tells me whether something is tasteful or ney just won't allow me. Won't allow me to appreciate the beauty in each person. Won't allow me to settle.
1.4k · Apr 2013
Waiting with her Legs Spread
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
I once felt love,
True love in detail
The kind that people act out,
Pretend/believe/desire/crave/hope to be in.
She would wait for me,
Legs open, mouth dripping.
Infatuated by my scent,
Moist to my touch.
We were divine in movement,
Excelling in performance.
A state of euphoria found only in Eden.

Now she’s with another—simple as that.
1.3k · May 2013
Whiskey Wednesdays
Kenneth Springer May 2013
This ******* heart beats thrice per second
Pumping in and pumping out the black tar from my lungs.
If the body is a temple,
Then I have abandoned mine
No one now kneels in this void.
Baptized in whiskey,
Circumcised with a machete.
It’s no coincidence that,
I was born on the full moon
In the midst of a hurricane.
Learning how to eat with no spoon
But this is who I am.
We each have a cross to bare
Mine’s just covered in scalpels
Sharpened bread knives,
That draw wrinkles on my face.
1.3k · Apr 2013
Balancing a Unicycle
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
Chin up, look straight.
A battle of wits account the physicality of it all,
Though the cycle holds one accountable
Balance keeps me afloat.
That I may fall,
Flat on my face
And it’ll be ok
I’ll be fine—trust me.  
Because equilibrium’s non-static state,
ends sooner—Rather than later.
What’s Balance but a second before falling?
What’s Balance, but a second before needing more Balance..
balance = happiness
1.1k · Jun 2013
HIT ME!
Kenneth Springer Jun 2013
Today, I got punched in the face,
And I really liked it.
My lip roughly grazing the surface of my teeth,
Gently slicing my pomegranate edges.
My blood, tastes of used battery acid
Stinging my tongue on contact.

My head swung back a bit
As gravity seeks an answer
And always comes to collect.
I boomeranged back in place,
Just in time to hear the ringing
A deaf melody heard only by my ears.

When it was over I realized
My excitement was premature.
it all happened so fast.
Left me with the blues, a testicular protest..
I looked down at her.
Told her: “Now this side”
Today I got punched in the face twice..
And ******* loved it..
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
The cuts on my back,
use them as steps,
climb the ladder.
The hole in my shoulder,
use it as a grip,
Rise over the edge.
Once you get to the upper
Look down from atop the scalp.
Doesn’t everything seem small & insignificant?
Do not fear the wind though,
for this is just my sight.
Use my windows to see over yonder.
756 · May 2013
Guilty as Charged
Kenneth Springer May 2013
Lost in thought
I struggle to wake,
Breathing in your toxic conclusions
false preconceptions,
Notions of refuge, receding to nothingness.

Steadfast is my disposition,
To go with what I believe,
Rather than what they say.
Because the judge will always lay verdict
While the judged may only plea.
And the plea is always guilty
When it’s coming out of me.
Kenneth Springer Mar 2013
What I am means not the who,
For who I am transcends the what in that the I,
Ohh the I,
Means a lot of nothing..
For what is confidence without ambition?
Pride lacking reason,
a combination of halves ignorant of the whole
Blind whales swimming in circles
An endless abyss of the seventh sea
The playing field of unfamiliarity

For whom does a flightless bird share secrets with?
A used gum, hardened and black
The unfiltered truth of my being..
717 · May 2013
Last Night
Kenneth Springer May 2013
I was tired but still made it
Took a shot to be festive,
then another to loosen the noose.
We danced for a bit but I was still stiff.
Jameson, on the rocks—my substance of choice.
Found you in the back,
Finished that ****** joint you rolled.
We laughed a bit and then you bit me.
I pulled you close but then you ran.
Kicked me in the shin,
Flicked me off as you turned the corner.
Love hurts they said.
*Literally…
691 · Dec 2012
Guidelines of Religion
Kenneth Springer Dec 2012
Peace through War
Slavery with Freedom,
where Strength is measured by Ignorance.

The kneel imposes blindness,
the breathlessness of the witness.
So puncture the lung,
a symptom of Clarity.
Appease the stone,
a display of Vanity.

The static unyielding faith,
a sign of absent sanity.

So—repress in prayer,
rather address in self.
683 · Apr 2013
Father used to say
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
Tomorrow will be better,
My father used to say.
With empty pockets and a broken lip,
Dreams of love were squandered hallucinations,
rather than reality.
My curse of knowledge,
Once thought to bring me delight and wonder
welcomes only pain and self-destructive blueprints of lust.
I am an architect of my own ruin,
A preacher of my own mistakes..
Tomorrow will be better,
My father used to say.
But today’s today to my dismay.
608 · Apr 2013
The Man With No Dreams
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
Counting the ‘pops’ on the popcorn ceiling
Without sleep how can one dream.
Without dreams how shall I see my future,
My past or my present?      
A fitting sentence    
carried out slowly.
To inhale, consume, **** and fight at will.
Is it my fault? That I love to be wicked?
Letting my “id” run rampant with immorality,
the weight of the bags –Droplets of fatigue.
So when the moon rises,
don’t look for me, I won’t be home.
Because the man with no dreams,
Must turn his reality into one.
can you see the skull?.
603 · Apr 2013
Solitary Man
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
It was his concluding gaze.
Enclosed by persons
Why would he choose me?
Choose to leave me scarred
A brand I've not once elapsed.
I never knew his name,
Never stayed to see what became of him.
I know he died that night,
Bled out like a pig on the cement.
He looked at me to save him,
But I ran.
A  c o w a r d too frightened to help a stranger.
I've not, not ever not told anyone,
Of these eyes that haunt me,
Of this night that plagues my wakefulness.
To see him pricked four whiles,
Punctured over babble.
I hate him for what he did.
Blaming me with concluding eyes.
520 · Apr 2013
Step One
Kenneth Springer Apr 2013
Be polite when clothed,
violent when naked.
smoke till it hurts
drink till you cough
And dance with an eye closed.
Then
Seek happiness but don’t keep it.
When it’s gone,
Then
Start from step one.

— The End —