Prose & Poetry of Shylock

By Shylock

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, Id like my crayons back, please.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532039607

Shylock

Hartley Atkins hails from Brooklyn, New York. He is a retired accountant and financial controller who held senior management positions in the Private Security industry for many years. He is the former Chairman of Bulwark Guard Services LLC, a private security consultancy. He has been married for over 40 years and has three (adult) children. Inhis leisure time, he doubles as SHYLOCK, the music producer, part-owner of the Recording Label, Eves Flair Music, the songwriter and the writer of award-winning Poetry. He has previously published two books, The Lyrics of Shylock and Poems of Shylock, featuring several of his poems and prose. Poems of Shylock is still available at allleading stores, including, iUniverse, Amazon and Barnes Noble etc.

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iUniverse rev. date: 01/26/2018

Contents

Auntie Says

Preface

Prose Of The Times

A Flag Going To Tatters, High Time! (In Prose)

A Loose Cannon (In Prose)

A Man’s Word (In Prose)

A Never-Ending Struggle (In Prose)

About Good And Evil, A Prayer (In Prose

Africa, The Black Empress (In Prose)

Allegory Of A Crusade In Merica (In Prose)

Allegory Of - From A King To A Tree And A Fact-Checker As An Ax (In Prose)

Of Putin, The Man Upstairs, Power-Drunk And Is Crimea The Night He Falls Asleep? (In Prose)

Allegory Of The Mad Crusader (In Prose)

Allegory Of The Overvalued Stock (In Prose)

Amputated Justice For Oscar Pistorius (In Prose)

An Allegory Of A Shinning City On A Hill (In Prose)

An Error Of American Conservatism (In Prose)

And We Are Left Wondering Why (In Prose)

As The Aura Of Celebrity Fades With Age (In Prose)

Assad, Exposed As Keeper Of The Corridor Of Hate In Syria And Survival Of That Crocodile (In Prose)

At Last, Hoodie Again (In Prose)

Baltimore, Another Lighthouse (In Prose)

Beauty Pays (In Prose)

Blame Tyrants For The Terrorists, Not Us (In Prose)

Chivalry, The Gist (In Prose)

Commemorating What (In Prose)

Control Your Destiny (In Prose)

Curbing Your Enthusiasm (In Prose)

Deserving The Leader They Chose, The Curse Of The Ill-Gotten (In Prose)

Destitute, For Not Being A Man (In Prose)

Diffusion Of Responsibility (In Prose)

Doubting Thomas And The Arab Spring (In Prose)

Even The Devil Cited The Scripture For His Own Evil Purpose In Biblical Time (In Prose)

God, Help Us! (In Prose)

Good Try And Goodbye Assad (In Prose)

Government By Gunmen Has Always Failed (In Prose)

Her Consuming Passion (In Prose)

Her Virgin Voyage (In Prose)

Homosexuality (In Prose)

Honor Or To Honor (In Prose)

How Did This Happen? (In Prose)

How Times Have Changed! (In Prose)

Invisible Shackles (In Prose)

King Of The Beasts (In Prose)

Lesser Than A Beast (In Prose)

Let The Music Play (In Prose)

Let Us Not Fool Ourselves (In Prose)

Loyalty (In Prose)

Lustful Dreams (In Prose)

Moments (In Prose)

Mopes Of A Jilted Lover (In Prose)

Muslim People Are Like Rag Dolls (In Prose)

Nothing Is Impossible (In Prose)

Notoriety, Another Face Of Evil (In Prose)

Old Age (In Prose)

Once More (In Prose)

Persuasion (In Prose)

Politics With The Poetic Oratory (In Prose)

Principles Over Politics, Anytime! (In Prose)

Putin, Hero To Many, Even In The Usa (In Prose)

Racial Profiling, That Insidious, Evil Thing (In Prose)

Right & Wrong, Good & Bad (In Prose)

Senility, Betrayer Of The Unconscious (In Prose)

Sheepdogs (In Prose)

That Bad Liberal Thing (In Prose)

That Is Who He Is (In Prose)

That Perverse Voice (In Prose)

The American (Anti-Feminist) Patriarchy (In Prose)

The Beast Within (In Prose)

The Candidate (In Prose)

The Cynic (In Prose)

The Elusive, Kissing Flower (In Prose)

The Head Of The Spear (In Prose)

The Innocent Child (In Prose)

The Iraq War, A Short Story (In Prose)

The Kkk Lives! (In Prose)

The Last Gasp Of A Patriarchy! (In Prose)

The Lone Kayaker (In Prose)

The Man Cave (In Prose)

The New Terror Army, Isis, Winning The War On Terror? (In Prose)

The Outsider (In Prose)

The Reincarnation Of Evil And Assad (In Prose)

The Rise, Then Fall, As The Crusader (In Prose)

The Scourge Of Tyranny (In Prose)

The Status Quo And The Police (In Prose)

The Time He Discovered He Had A Crazy Haitian Wife (In Prose)

The Wool Been Cast Off (In Prose)

Things (In Prose)

This Fbi Philosophy (In Prose)

Those Wise Men (In Prose)

True Love (In Prose)

Tyranny (In Prose)

Vice (In Prose)

What Do They Expect, She Is The Teflon Lady! (In Prose)

When Anticipation Was Happiness (In Prose)

When Doubtfulness Becomes Stubbornness That Can Kill (In Prose)

When Love Was A Prison (N Prose)

Why We Are Here (In Prose)

Wonders, Truly Never Cease (In Prose)

Your Memory (In Prose)

Poems

A Beckoning Hand

A Call To Poets

A Fleeting Beauty

A Jealous Moon

A Lasting Flame

A Little Boy & Three Angels

A Shaken Faith O Lord

A Tale Of Terror

A Tragedy We Grieve

A Wonderful, Glorious Reverie

After The Storm

After This Winter

All Tyranny By The Weak

Allegory Of Town Of Kobani

Ambiguous Ambivalence

America’s Nightmare

An Allegory Of Redemption

Another Day But The Same

Autumn

Autumn Looms

Ballad Of A Sex Addict

Ballad Of Bean Counters

Ballad Of Go Bomb The Evil Bandits

Ballad Of New Cow Was Old Cow

Ballad Of That Celtic Thing

Ballad Of The Emanuel Nine

Ballad Of The Gambler

Ballad Of The Hitman

Ballad Of The Pontiff

Ballad Of The Stuntman

Ballad Of The Surfer

Ballad Of The Tantra Dance

Ballad Of Two Wretched Souls

Ballad Of What Is To Be

Bart, Tess And The Wind

Battles Of Civil Disobedience

Beautiful Hummingbird

Bittersweet Mother Nature

Brain-Snatcher

Chant For Change

Chivalry Still Alive!

Dementia, Ye Old Demon

Desire

Earth To Man

Enterprise

Essence Of Life

Evil And The Uneasy Head

Flame-Arrows

For That Same Love

For What Good Then Is Life!

Forever, Slaves

Freddie Gray, A Martyr Made

Gargoyles

Good, Old Nostalgia

Goodbye Winter Welcome Spring

Grandson

Hammer Away

Heartbreaking Voodoo Girl

His Wife And Christmas

How They Want

Hubris

Inevitability

Iowans, Help Us!

It

It’s Dancehall

Jamaican Nostalgia

Joy

Karl And Kim

Kinesthesia

Levity

Life’s Fleeting Ways

Life’s Twists & Turns

Litle Birdie

Love

Mandela And The Power Of One

Miss Me

More Of Winter’s Ironies

Mortified

My Lovely

My Muse

My Smile Maker

Nature’s Trick

Novelty

Nymph And The Beast

O Gentle Knights Of Yore

O Fate!

O What A Charade!

O, Sweet Bel Canto

Oblivion

Ode To A Prayer Warrior

Ode To A Sinner

Ode To A Warrior’s Wife

Ode To America!

Ode To Chivalry

Ode To The Backstabbers

Oh, How I Miss

Old Dog, New Trick

Old Glory (Usa)

On Death Row

On The Catwalk

On Tyrants (Castro Etc)

Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

Police Brutality

Pretty Girls

Requiem For A Despot

Revolution

Say Goodbye To Thunderstorms

Sex

She, His Nemesis

Shingles

Shredded Some Old Memories

Slaves Of Tyranny

So Much More To Devour

Sonnet Of A Stronger Love

Sonnet Of Another Day

Sonnet Of Beauty And The Wild

Sonnet Of Cold Swashbuckler

Sonnet Of Come Away With Me

Sonnet Of Heartbreak, That Silent Killer

Sonnet Of Hoodie, Thy Son

Sonnet Of O, Dark Day At The Tower

Sonnet Of Only Time Will Tell

Sonnet Of Santana

Sonnet Of Spirit Of Old Glory

Sonnet Of The Black Stallion

Sonnet Of The Bluebirds

Sonnet Of The Daring, Damned Devil

Sonnet Of The Decider

Sonnet Of The Elements

Sonnet Of The Great Beyond

Sonnet Of The Now

Sonnet Of The Renaissance

Sonnet Of The Scary Night Of A 7-Year-Old

Sonnet Of The Tempest & The Crew

Sonnet Of The Tinsel Hair Ogre

Sonnet Of This Is Hell

Steatopygia

Stimming On Life

Tears Of Joy

That Forever Thing

That Ole Chivalry, The Reunion

That Passion

That Taste Of Strawberries

The Battle Of Ptsd

The Bear And The Eagle

The Beggars

The Bogeywoman

The Brinkmen

The Cycle Of Life

The Dauntless

The Dive Of The Countdown

The Erotic Love

The Falling Tear Drop

The Feminist

The Glorified Drag Queen

The Great Escape

The Greatest Still

The Heterosexual Boy

The Joy Of Words

The Little Sun Catcher

The Lone Wolves

The Milky Way

The Old Lady & The Grim Reaper

The Old Lady Upstairs

The Old Man

The Pauper & The Poet

The Preacher

The Rebels

The Rise Of The Teflon Lady

The Sorceress

The Sun Vs. The Wind

The Survivor

The Teflon Lady & The Tinsel Hair Ogre

The Thug

The Way You Smile

Their Triad Tryst

Then Over In Damascus

Then Over In Moscow

There’re Souls In Limbo

Things We Built

This Apple Madness

This Cycle Of Hate

This Temple

Those Feet

Those Glory Days

Those God-Players

Those Hands I Trust

Those Lifelines

Those Sacred Oaths

Those Tiny Tots

Those Trumpeters

Time Of Halloween

Tingle With Love

’Tis Nature’s Fault

To The Arabs Fighting For Freedom

Toddler

Tragedy Of The Hearts

Twice The Man

Two Knights And Ol’ Chivalry

Typoland

Unrequited Love, No Longer (Bart To Tess)

Until She Met Old Nick

Until You Met Her Shrew

Warning!

Watch Us Banter

Waves

We See You

Wedded

What A Fool

What Better Way To Die

What Did She See In Me?

What Manner Of Men

What Would Have Been, If He Had?

When Demons Zoom

When Evil Was Enemy

When Love Came Knocking

When Passion Cries

Whither, Blind Lady

Windows Of Life

Winter’s Tail

Women

Your Lives Matter Too

AUNTIE SAYS

PREFACE

Auntie Says, God has got to be a woman. Jokingly, of course, she says she arrived at this conclusion as she observes Acts of God or Mother Nature,