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Authors: Marita A. Hansen

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I cried out into his hand, coming a second
later. I grabbed his head and yanked it down. Dante let go of my mouth right
before I smashed my lips against his. Then he was coming too, his hands
gripping onto me hard, my mouth in turn swallowing his cries, the both of us not
caring about anything or anyone other than the two of us, in this moment—
now.

Then
it stopped.

And the consequences
began.

SHATTERED
POETRY

(BROKEN LIVES #2)

Coming Soon...

BROKEN
ENGLISH

My identity is not
seen in the way I look, but heard in the way I talk

With a broken form
of English

That is neither
British, Irish, or Scottish

Instead, it’s
shaped by my M
ā
ori heritage,
interlanguage

That belongs to New Zealand, not our
Aussie neighbours

We’re not convicts
from their past, we’re prisoners from our present

Stealing, whoring,
tagging,
killing

Biding our time until we get locked
up, away, never to see the light of day

By the cops, pigs,
oink-oink, disrespect they don’t deserve, but get nonetheless

Cos we don’t
understand their need to heed our country’s creed

But they also
don’t comprehend

That the illegal
things we do, perpetrate, commit, break

Are not always by choice, but
necessity, our families’ lives at stake

Cos money doesn’t
flow for us like it does on the streets of Herne Bay

Unless we’re
dishing out drugs, or letting a John or Jane pay to lay

Fuck

Our bodies into disarray

It’s the poetry of
our streets

A broken rhyme for
a dime, a verse for a hearse

We’re killing
ourselves, dying to feel, to deal, to steal

Another breath,
before we’re sent to our death

Through a knife, a
fight, or a bullet to our brain

Leaving behind a bloody stain

Upon the streets of South Auckland

Where fractured
melodies play across an urbanscape

Filled with houses
carved from cemented dynamite

Called Asbestos,
Sillimanite, a painted Fibrolite

Cold and mouldy
buildings serenaded by cop lights

The police
blinding us with criminals’ kryptonite

Until we have no fight

Left in us

Anymore

By Dante Rata

A modern day
troubadour

A
Special Note from the Author
:

Thank you for
reading BROKEN ENGLISH!

I would like to ask if
you could review this story along with any of my other books that you’ve read,
regardless of whether you’ve loved or hated them, because every review counts,
especially for self-published authors.

Here’s the link to my
Amazon author page, where you can find all of my books:

http://www.amazon.com/Marita-A.-Hansen/e/B005H5W79K/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Also, if you’re
interested in reading more about an older version of
Dante
, he features in
the
Behind the Lives
series (from book 2 onwards). He also has a cameo
in book 1, though please note that
Behind the Hood
has a different feeling
to the rest of its series. Nevertheless, if you read
Behind the Lives
,
don’t assume the outcome to
Broken Lives
. If
Broken Lives’
first
trilogy is successful, I will write a second trilogy about Clara and Dante, just
continuing their story nine years later.

Regards,

Marita
A. Hansen.

About
the Author

Marita A. Hansen
is from New Zealand. She loves writing, creating art, watching and
participating in football, and running. She ran her first marathon in 2012 and
is now planning on completing many more. For more information on Marita check
out these links:

Author Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marita-A-Hansen/113130742120676

My Masters’ Nightmare Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Masters-Nightmare/167338690126962

Blog Site:

http://maritaahansen.blogspot.co.nz/

Amazon Author Page:

http://www.amazon.com/Marita-A.-Hansen/e/B005H5W79K/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Goodreads’ Author Page:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5129673.Marita_A_Hansen

Artslant Page:

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/74433-marita-hansen