Waiting for the Parade: Poems

By Al Ferber

The parade never happened.
No one showed up.
Would have been a bust anyway…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664149137

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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all poems have appeared or will appear in Gnu Gnus, and Mangle / the Apostate Broadsides copyright @ Al Ferber printed with my permission

Rev. date: 12/21/2020

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for Cathi

my benefactor

wife

best friend

and

creator of the weeds

where I am lost

CONTENTS

I Haven’t. Have You.

The Crying Of Lot

Undifferentiated Derangement Syndrome

Lust And Love And Scurvy

Brittle Little Thing

Afeared

Under Cover Of The Night

Sunrise

Magna Carta: The Musical

Decaf

Sneak Attack

Livin’ In The Bottle

Boulder

Mutterings And Murmers

The Ball

Star. No Twinkle.

Waiting For The Parade

Dancing In The Furnace

Waiting

The Fragile Lines Of Night

Needle ‘N Spoon

The Chokehold Killing.

A Crate Of Hand Grenades

The Plastic Ones

Changing Of The Guard

Gatekeepers

Mindfulness

Ode To Helen Back

The World Threw Him Out On His Ass

The Light Went Out Across The Street

Love Letters To The Paintings

Talk At. Not To. Myself.

Profundity

Egress

We Can Do That

Christmas Shopping In The Hood

The Floor Fell Out

Protocol

Line In The Sand

On Bukowski

The Druids Come

Stomp On It

Mardi Grouse

Migration

Career Night

Maybe I Made Her Up

Rumbling

Petty Obsessions In Disneyland

The View From The Bottom

Snub Nose 39

Drama Mama

She Dubbed Him Cupcake

From The Depths

The Skinny Kid

Pick Pocket

Need

Scum Bag Rat Bastard Son Of A Bitch

Nutcase Strategy

Spider Napping On A Slice Of Tangerine

Fake Suede Shoes

A Few Good People

Because It Was There

Hope

Sliced Diced Fried & Sauteed

Oh Gees…

Non Sexual Terms ?

Non Sectarian

Five To Ten

Grim Reaper

A Moment Of Glory

1984

History

The World. On Film.

The Horse Is Dead

TED Talks

DT Go Away

So I Was Off By A Few Letters

How Many Times

76 Trombones

The Shower Hose In The Bathtub

Vibrations In The Water Line

Shad Roaches

Quit The Shit

Chapter & Verse

Street Lights

Ice Flos

Christmas Eve Tangier Cafe

Sinkholes & Imbeciles

Irretrievable

Midnight

Gas Lights

Bleeding

Cold

Vision

Drunk Writing

Majorette

Dangling In Space

The End Of A Good Beginning

From One Post To The Next

Cut The Shit. Please. My Darling.

The Space Between The Scary Stuff

Safety Valve

Splashing Bleach On My Skivvies

Bring On The Clowns

Abstract

Buddha

The Single Most

Before I Wake

Hard Cheese

Right

The Crying Game

We Were Put To Bed

Full Blossoming

20th Century

Reflections

She’s Broken

They Said

The Project

I HAVEN’T. HAVE YOU.

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