Scream vol 2(On The Verge Of Being)

By Shawn Hicks

Following the underground success of SCREAM: An Anthology Of Sacred Thoughts, Brok'n English Publications is pleased to announce the second volume of Shawn Hicks' poetic work. SCREAM: On The verge Of Being.

Continuing in the same vein of the gritty lyric and prose of the first volume, Shawn's anecdotes, opinions and imaginations comes to life as through every page he tells more tales of love, life, worldly commentary, examination of self, and the lessons learned from it all. Whether dreaming effusivey about past relationships, fanging in angst about problems both locally and globally, or just letting off steam at former employers and conniving betrayers though biting humor; SCREAM: On The Verge Of Being ventures deep towards the inner most part of the soul with the reader in mind, matching the thoughts that many have but never tell. For sometimes, we all want to SCREAM!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shawn Hicks
• Release date: Jan 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301299324

Shawn Hicks

Shawn Hicks is the C.E.O. and President of Brok'n English Publications, with the goal of providing a medium for telling his literary works. He received his A.A.S in Video Arts from Borough of Manhattan Community College, and he's currently recieving is B.A. from Brooklyn College for Television & Radio, and Film Studies. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Along with publishing, BEP has created a subsidiary company called Brok'n TV, with the intention to develop and produce television and internet content.

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Brok’n English Publications

Presents:

SCREAM

(on the verge of being)

By Shawn Hicks

This is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, events, establishments, or locales are intended only to give this work a sense of authenticity within the confines of fiction, and is not within any actual or historical content or context. Other names, places, and incidents occurring in this work are solely the product of the author’s imagination. Therefore, any resemblance to real persons, events, establishments, and locales, past or present, living or dead, is purely coincidental and is not an actual or historical account of any involved

Copyright © 2012 by Shawn Hicks

Published in 2012 by Brok’n English Publications

Cover Artwork by Shawn Hicks

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Table of Contents

1) Holding Hands

2) Sometimes, From Fifty Feet Away

3) Just Saying/Real Talk

4) Fuck Prada

5) Are We Really Friends?

6) 25 Women

7) Things Change

8) A-Hole

9) Beautiful Black Water

10) Sunspots

11) More Wuff Tickets & Dozens

12) Just Out Of Principle (Ode To A Mademoiselle)

13) Testimony (To Lex and Shelley)

14) Comeback For Payback

15) Good Soul

16) CBSOB

17) The Collections Department

18) They Need More Than Quarter Water

19) Ghetto Gone Wild

20) Honey Crush

21) Precipice To Resurrection (SCREAM 2.0)

22) Simone

23) War Cry Of The Little Man

24) Two Truths

25) Senses in Silhouettes

26) Paper Plates

27) I’m Not Normal

28) Better (On The Verge Of Being)

About The Author

Holding Hands

Text messages in the midday

Just to let her know you’re thinking of her

Or picking her up from work when she least expected

With flowers in your hands

Adoring her when she’s not dressed to impressed

Hair tussled, wearing a tank top

With a table fan blowing onto her

As she beats the hellish heat

Picking up chores to help her out

Taking the kids to the movies to give her a silent break

Getting up to go to the store

For her favorite ice cream

Thinking of wondrous places to go

Around the world, perhaps?

Or maybe nowhere at all, but a stroll through the park

Your hand entwined with hers

Along a moonlit, cobbled stone trail

Taking her bags so she can be free of burden

And walking her to the front door

Or just looking into her eyes and saying

Everything is going to be OK

Many try the heart

And demand its roots from the earth

But things like holding hands

Are what make the difference

Between having love, and being in love

Sometimes, From Fifty Feet Away

She works at the supermarket across the street from where I live

She has short cropped hair and a nice, thick, curvy body

She has a flighty feminine voice, not yet strained with a masculine tone

From dealing with the harsh unfairness called Everyday

That women can develop, sometimes

Sometimes I see her, either heading to or from work

Sometime early morning or at late night

Why is she walking by herself in this cold world?

There should be sentinels beside her, or citadels to enshrine her

Doesn’t anyone notice when a precious thing needs to be taken care of?

Well, I’ll watch over her

But I won’t disturb her with the usual rhetoric

Of trying to kick it

For I can tell she’s doing her own thing

Far from me to add my messings to her blessings

Sometimes when I’m in the supermarket, I look for her to see which register she’s working

If the lines too long, I keep it moving, and sometimes, I’ll wait on the line

It’ll give me more time to see why she stays on my mind

Because I’m too old to be fascinated by someone I don’t know

Ehh, she’s not that cute

And she chews with her mouth open

And I can tell she has a little bit of an attitude

Then she glances at me, I smile

She gives a polite smile in return

Never mind that stuff I previously said

Sometimes when I’m getting coffee at the doughnut shop, she passes by

I like to stay far behind her

Not too far to place her in the horizon

But not too close to make her nervous and have me look like some stalker

I just want to admire, from about fifty feet away

Goodness, how she can sway along the concrete

Like it was made from the wind, making