Mexico City Booze

By Al Ferber

Gus has been on hiatus for several years. He remained silent during that time. However, in the past year, he has made a thunderous comeback, producing enough material from his adventures, misadventures, thoughts, dreams, musings, nightmares, observations, recollections, and the various other sundry things that he does for four full volumes of poetry. Come jump in for the swimsome youll like; others, not so much; and some youll love. But one way or another, youll be hooked.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524560188

Al Ferber

Al Ferber a septuagenerian going on 13. Born. Regrettably… A North Philly kid. Survived education at Temple U., Penn State, Villanova U. Alcoholic 30 years. Sober 23 years. Indenture servant to Catherine the Great 34 years. Learned to love and appreciate cats and one dog. Authored 30 books of poems, 2 novels, 3 chap books. Poems in Magazines in U.S., England, Scotland, France. Still alive, on the downward path of the sliding board, as of this writing. An undocumented alien in the world. Resides Ocean City, NJ surrounded by water with Cathi, Luna, Mitzi, and Opal. So there.

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Copyright © 2016 by Albert Ferber.

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CONTENTS

Shake A Hand

Shallow Grave

Shameful

Shattered

She Forgot

Shifting Shelving

Shit For Brains

Shit Fuck Piss (for Bob Bellerby)

Shit on a Stick

Shit Storm

Shit Tricks

Shock

Show Boat

Side Show

Side Show

Sidewalk Art Show

Silence

Silence

Silent Voices In The Night

Simmer

Simple Reaction

Sirens & Lights

Sister Story

Sisyphus

Sit Down Comedian

Slapdash

Sliding Board

Sliding Board

Sliding Board

Sliding Down Slowly

Small Change

Smelling Like A Rose

Smoke Signals

Smooth Operator

Snake Eyes

Snapshots

Sneak Attack

Sneaky Process

So What

So What

Social Class

Socially Unacceptable

Sociopath

The Easier Softer Way

Some Rivers Sing Some Dancer

Sometimes

The Soul Singer

The Sound of the World

Space

Spanish Moss

Specifics

Splat

Splatch

Squirrels In The Attic

Stairs

Stalactites & Stalagmites

Stand On

Stew

Rip The Stigma

Still Complaining

Still

Stimulation

Stories

Storm Clouds

Storm Warning

Straining Against The Chains

A Long Thin Strand Of Idiots

Strap Hangers

Strategy

Street Rat

Strings Attached

Stripped Down

Stroganoff

Structure

Struggle

Subterranean

Subterranean

Subtitles

Subway

Suicide

Sunny

Sunset

Sunset

Supersonic

Sirens

Surprise

Surrealistic Dreams

Surrealistic Thinking

Surviving Dreams

Swimming

Swimming

Swimmingly

Switch

Switch

Synthetic

Taking Shape

Talk

Talk

Tangier 3

Tangier Cafe 2

Tangier Cafe

Tar Pits

Tarnish

Tattoo You

Temptation

Thank You

Thanksgiving Reunion

That Night

That Tears It

The Answer

The Babe

The Bay

The Beach

SHAKE A HAND

Gus said there was a song

in the fifties called Shake

A Hand and some of the lyrics

went like this Shake a hand

shake a hand well he didn’t

know what the fuck that meant

he knew for sure it didn’t

mean hand shake but several

decades later with help of

nature and what the neurologists

called a ministroke he knows

exactly what those bastards

meant shaking hands shaking

hands shaking GD hands

SHALLOW GRAVE

Gus said he’s decided

to recycle himself let

the medicos harvest

his rotten organs on the

noted occasion of his demise

get buried in a shallow

grave for worm food

have them crawl into

his eye sockets and down

his throat and the purpose

of the shallow grave

so his ghost won’t have

to dig too far should it

decide to come out and

break your balls again

SHAMEFUL

Gus said the treatment that addicts get

is shameful a bunch of garbage