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Publié par | Xlibris US |
Date de parution | 24 mai 2023 |
Nombre de lectures | 0 |
EAN13 | 9781669878636 |
Langue | English |
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Extrait
every WORD for ITSELF
Al Ferber
Copyright © 2023 by Al Ferber.
ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-6698-7864-3
eBook
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Cover design by Al Ferber
Rev. date: 05/24/2023
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Anywhere
Mitzi (R.I.P.)
Diplomacy
The Beats Are Gone
Feels Like
Unexpected Compliment
Call 911
Powdered Milk
Ghost Writer
Cha-ching
An Acquired Taste
J. Judy Said
Mulch
Chill Out
Through The Grapevine
Balls & Bars
S.O.S.
EWFI
Loud As Thunder
Shattered
The Dances
Where’s Everybody Go
The Secularist
Subterranean
Descent
Belly of the Beast
Arrangement
In The World
Opinions
Sunday
Words
Almost
Cemeterys & Shrinks
Don Juan
The Price Is Right
The Ascent Of Women
Rare Condition
The Conundrum of Boys & Girls
Hints of Joy
Chip Chip Chipped Away
The AA Thing
I Forgot
Night Life
Around The Circus
The Hole In The World
Bring It On
Hair Trigger
The Crew
The New Disease (2013)
Chamber of Horror
Aunt Maim’s
Hunters & Gatherers
Crawling
Passion
Welcome To My New Digs
Bronze Age
Stud
Rolling Around
Rattle Trap
Me & My G.P. in 1970
My First Car
Dr. Darko
The Pill (1970)
Pshaw Pshaw Pshaw
Screen Play
Protocol
Made My Day
Scant Chance
Ensnared
Eminent Domain
Enlightenment
Cautions Warnings Alarms Alerts
Mr. Potato Head
Buxom Neon Crossing Guard
The Out to Lunch Bunch
Scant Evidence
Other Voices
A Return to Now
The Ballad of Hideki Irabu
Haunted or Exhausted
You’ve Got a Disease
Cold Weather
The Birds
The Arrogance of Mud Wrestling
Weather Worn
Minimum Wage
Another Brick From The Wall
Graffiti
Missing Persons
Snapshots
Perfectly Sad
Debt Collector
Turf Wars
Every Word For Itself
Moment
Country Hicks
Oh, Hippies
Calamity
Epidemic
The Queen of Hearts
Night Train
Sucker Punch
Lies & Liars
Another Day
Pricks
Shock
Odd Size
Inside The Houses
At The Core
Don’t Dare
Slime
Florid
My Town Hall Meeting
Admiral With Draw
Evidence Based Practices
Death In The Right Circumstance
Chit Chat
Enigma
Flash Flood
Some People
Whirlpool of Forgetting
Summer Fun
Connect The Dots, Fool
So Many
No Bail Money
Squirrels: a modern day fable
Hello Boys, a cautionary tale
Gorp
Love Affair
Sump Pump
Strobe
Thanks for Sharing
Confusion
Under The Sun
Benchmarks
Violence
Electrical Current
Triggers
Infrequent. But Intense
Choosing Peace
Shallow Grave
Sneaky Process
Also by Al Ferber
Acknowledgements
Poems by Hop Wechsler, Paul Lutton, Tiffany Bartholomew Swain, Cathi Ferber, and Connie Rossi appear here with their permission.
Fable by Lawrence J. Ingram appears here with his permission.
Dedicated to
Cathi,
love of my life
Anywhere
Mom said don’t go
anywhere
for any reason
at any time
kid said I didn’t
go just anywhere
for any reason
at just anytime
I went to
the bathroom
to take a shit at
precisely 7:15 PM
Mitzi (R.I.P.)
Her ears
her whiskers
her nose
her paws
could see
for miles but
not her eyes
Diplomacy
Never took a course
in it
pretty sure I wouldn’t
do too well if I had
don’t do a hell of a lot
a thinking
before I speak
my brain seems
to operate on the
“fire when ready” system
The Beats Are Gone
Gus said the beats are gone
it took him
the longest time
to dope out that the Beats
were from his father’s
generation
no similarities whatsoever
except the submarine
under Brooklyn bridge
the dinosaur
in the museum of art
red nosed clowns spinning
around
looking out the window
of a laundry dryer
Canadian geese shitting
on golf course greens
remnants of Old Glory
getting
tarnished in the wind
and a poetry reading
on top
of an unsanitary landfill
Feels Like
Feels like
spring today!
I know
they’re
trying
to trick me!
Unexpected Compliment
A guy, just before
a meeting,
who I respected
as a damn fine
human being
and
brutally honest
about recovery,
told me
whenever he read
my poems
it mades him feel
grateful
that he wasn’t me
Call 911
It’s not
raining.
call 911
I wonder
what
went
wrong!
Powdered Milk
Never saw milk
in a pitcher before
mom poured it
in a glass
I took a drink
cringed and said
“what (the hell)
is this?
It’s not milk!”
“It’s powdered milk.”
“It tastes horrible.
I’d rather drink water.”
Can’t remember
what happened after
that but I never drank
powdered milk again.
Ghost Writer
Did it a few times
for friends as a favor
then got
a referral for cash
did it
not thinking I’d