A Man Filled with Love & Rage: (And a Strong Libido)

By Xlibris US

Some books will bend the truth, shade the truth,
downright distort and destroy the truth to protect
the guilty and the innocent just so they can talk
about the book and its characters in abstract terms.
Well, thats not how I play the game. Hell, I never
played that damned game at all. This book of poems
is actually about A Man Filled With Love & Rage
( and a strong libido). Sound interesting? Buy a
copy and read it, youll be glad you did. If it doesnt
sound interesting just keep walking, you probably
wouldnt understand it anyway. And thats about it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499029550

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Copyright © 2014 by Al Ferber.

ISBN:       Softcover       978-1-4990-2957-4

                 eBook            978-1-4990-2955-0

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Many of the poems presented here first appeared on the now defunct Rogue Poets—War All Time Poetry Site founded by poet Karen Dabkowski.

Cover painting by Herb Martin

Rev. date: 06/02/2014

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Contents

Dr. Benway Lectures

4 Corners

52 Pick Up

1001 Nights

A Kiss On a Raindrop

A Single Step

A Walk In The Park

Afraid

After Wedding Reception Party

Age, This Life

Alienation

All Accepting & Unforgiving Streets

All Over Town

All The Poems

Always Had A Problem

Amazon In Angel Skin

An Eye For An Eye

An Uncommon Kind Of Cool

Angels In The Trees

Angels

Another Time Another Season

Ashes Upon The Sea

At War With The World

Atmosphere/Ambiance

Bartender

Between The Flames

Bird Into The Window

Black Helicopters

Blue Light

Book Binders

Bottom Feeder

Rolling Thunder

Brain Virus

Bricks & Mortar

Buddha On The Corner

Buddha The Icon

Café

Camping Out

Careful

Cast Shadows

Cathedral Ceilings

Circus Side Show

City Beneath The City

Collapse

Coming Out Of The Fog

Commissar

Compulsion

Concrete Wall

Cous/Diva

Blood Brother (for Steve Solon)

Curtain of Sand

Dark Windows

Dead City Radio

Dead Rivers

Delayed Reaction

Delirium Tremens

Diving Bell

Down The Road

Dr. Ben Dover

Dr. Benway’s Emergency Surgical Clinic

Dripping Wax

Elective Office

Elephant Graveyard

Embarrassed Bohemian

Emerging From The Fog

Enchanted City

Errant Wisdom

Evil In The Heart Of Man

Excavation

Faith Belief Fear

Focus Your Heart

Fool’s Errand

For Our Lives

For The Longest Time

Fumbling Thumbs

Funky Good Time

Genius

Gold Stone & Blood

Golden Horse Inn

Grace Under Fire

Gravity

Greenwich Downstairs Night Club

Gus & The Woman

Heroin Kills

Hobo

Holy Pearls

Housekeeping

Human Sacrifice

Hun

I Am Legion

I Am The Devil

I Been Lucky

I Know How to Love

I Saw Her

Mesmerized

I’m In Trouble

I’ve Had The Fire

Impermanence

In My Gallery

In The Mind of a Cat

Inside The Filters

Intergalactic Sieve

Invitation

Jazz Club Friday Night

Jazz

Jivin’

Lingo

Listen to the Quiet

Lonely

Looking

Low Down

Low Flying Clouds

Lunar Eclipse

Manic

Mary Lou Got A New Pair of Shoes

Maybe

Mental Illness Makes An Entrance

Miles and Miles

Mini Reunion

You Can’t Sit Down

Women Of The Crow

Wishing For It All

Wise Monkey

Wild Horse

Whirl Wind

While I Watched Her

When The Moon Is Full

When My World Changed

When Anything Was Possible

Whatever This Is

What We Wanted

What We Really Need

What She Was & What She Wasn’t

What Did I Know

Wet Dream

War Dance

Walking Free

Walking By The Water

Walk Through

Wagners Ballroom

Versailles

Uprooted

Up

Universal Rhythm

Unicorns

Unfiltered

Underground Passageways

Trumpets Saxophones & Drums

True Love

Trouble On Cell Block B

Track Meet

Time

Time Has Come Today

Thunder Storm

Through The Veil Of The Universe

Thought Provoking

Ash Wednesday

There Is No Such Place As This

Them & Us

Youthful Tureen

The Years

The Yard Of Graves

The World’s Gone Mad

The World Be Leanin’

The Wind Is Out Tonight

The Wild Bunch

The Wetlands

The Walk

The Ultimate Solution

The Temple Crumbled

The Strobe Neon Side Show

The Street/The Noise/The City

The Sound of the World

The Slaughter Within

The Show Boat Cafe

Shadows In The Alleys

Refraction

Return

The Power of Music

The Painting

The Other Side

The Novel I Never Wrote

The New Arts

The Never Ending Music

The Music

Winds Through The Hollows

The Lake of the Sword

The Devil’s Playground

The Dead Men

The Day The Sun Winked At Me

The Cool

The Chef & The Pizza Man

The Buddha of Jazz

The Big Dipper

The Big Dipper

The Beauty

The Beat

The Basic Nature Of Man

The Ark

That Manic Stage

Territorial

Talking To The Inmates

Synapses

Swamp Thing

Sun Struck

Suicide / Self Murder

Suicide March

Strange Land

Straining At The Chains

Spirit In The Dark

Spiral Walkways

Something In The Way She Moves

Someplace Sometime

So Big

Shooting Star

Shapes

Shade

Satanic Dance

Scattered Personality

Save The Children

Samsara

Round House

Rolling Thunder

Rock Heavy Metal & All The Rest

Road Kill

Right Cross

Richness

Rethinking This Age Thing

Raining In The Shade

Rain Forest

Quixote

Quarter To Three

Preparations

Porch Light

Bi-Polar Express

Pitching The Moon Into The Dark

Petrified

Periodic Table

Peace In The Village Tonight

Painter of the Universe

Out There

Out On A Toot

One Faded Rose

Once Upon Sometime

On The Edge of a Volcano

Down The Rabbit Hole

Night Walker

Nor Wish To Shut The Door

Novelist (William S. Burroughs)

Nightmares Birds & Glass

Myth In The Fog

Mystics

My Depression

Mountains Above The Clouds

The Dark

Buddy Gavin

Tumbling Down

Blood Brother (for Steve Solon)

Floaters

Dr. Benway Lectures

He took to an orange crate

on a street corner to deliver

his oration on his philosophy

of medicine and surgery

emphasized that it mattered

not if the patient survived

the procedure what mattered

most was that the surgeon’s

performance be facile and

creative the patient was

merely the canvas

and the surgeon

the artist with loss of blood

and destruction of body

organs and limbs simple

byproducts

of the artists’ techniques

the death of a patient

immaterial in the big

picture

immaterial in the overall

scheme of things

4 Corners

Our parents brought us

all 4 of us into this world

sent us rolling around

and whipping around

like so many cars in a

demolition derby with

sudden bumps and jolts

and sundry damages

that never stopped flung

us into each others’ corner

for brief periods for no

apparent reason providing

a short lived illusion of

understanding and allegiance

and we hung on to stagnant

dreams of family as so many

do despite mounting evidence

that would suggest a dissolution

be in order until one day we

all 4 of us hit head on in the middle

52 Pick Up

We keep looking for rules

making artificial rules

that don’t work

don’t hold water in this

no holds barred game of

52 Pick Up

some would call chaos

some would call anarchy

one false step and it’s

down for the count

planning is just another

fools errand

shit happens

is the order of the day

expectations are just

another form of suicide

the question is

are we supposed

to even try to pick them up at all

1001 Nights

That’s the limit

that’s all you get

good ones anyway

otherwise the moon

goes out on strike

leaves you blanketed

in black

no hint of romance

no hint of the

theater of the absurd

just a penetrating

blindness with no

apparent beginning

and no apparent end

a lifeless devoid

barren of all creation

but ah those 1001

nights while they

are there for the asking

while they last

for romance

for love

for general wonderment

at the universe

at the inconceivable

concept of infinity

for stretching your mind

as far as it can go

without snapping back

like a rubber band

A Kiss On a Raindrop

I dreamt I walked up

my old street

toward her house

when a kiss on a raindrop

fell on my forehead

like no other raindrop

I’ve ever felt

there was 200 proof

pure love in that kiss

on that raindrop

that lit up my eyes

that lit up my heart

that lit up my soul

like never before

this raindrop being

the only one of the day

the only one of its kind

and the kiss

the only one that ever was

dreams can be fucking wonderful

A Single Step

A single step

outside the front door

into night

is lonely

the chilling wind

leaves rustling

across the ground

streets stripped

of human traffic

no beautiful woman

hiding in the bushes

waiting to pounce

and have her way with me

everyone in the neighborhood

stored away

in their houses

cars shiver

in their parking spaces

trees stand stolid

holding their breath

even dogs do

a nervous dance

to control

their bladders and bowels

until warmer temperatures

prevail

it is stark

and filled with chill

outside my front door

and I can’t take

the loneliness anymore

so I am going back inside

A Walk In The Park

I’m gonna’ shake all

the dust and rust