Chronic Illness is Brock Kalim's second publication. Chronic Illness is a poetic work that runs the gambit of societal concerns to love and intimacy. Brock's growth is displayed in a no-hold's barred manner. Each work shows the introspection of a young man and his pen in a therapeutic session of honesty and intimacy in urban dialogue.

Crying Out is Brock's first publication of poetic free thought. Crying Out shares introspective thought from a young man hailing from the east coast and more life experience than many of his peers. This work shows Brock's growth as he traversed through the different issues presented him and how the pen gave aid of relief while therapeutically carrying him into his adulthood and maturity. As you read 'Slow Pain', you feel as Brock felt while writing it. 'Open Your' gives quick and gentle admonishment and encouragement while The Pen describes from the tool's standpoint and ability. You will...