Mud Wrestling on San Juan Hill

By Al Ferber

This life. This planet. Might as well be Mud Wrestling on San jab Hill.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669857273

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 © 2022 by Al Ferber.

Cover Art: Al Ferber

Introduction by Herb Martin

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Rev. date: 11/23/2022

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All poems have previously appeared in Mangle/zine or

Evolution of an Accidental Painting, reprinted here

with the author's permission. Al Ferber, Editor Publisher, Mangle/zine and Evolution of an Accidental Painting.

Contents

Intro

Opera

The Lone Stranger

Concepts

The Drunk & The Lamp Post

Have Poem Will Travel

The Island & The Wind

Seeing Jazz

Drop Kick

Public Enemy

The Movie Store

The Last Surgery

The Upper Room

The Beats Are Gone

Grievances

Paradise Lost

Where›s Everybody Go

Compass

Point of Disorder

Goose Step

Liar Liar

Gotta Gotta Gotta

Hark The Siren

Schoolyard Brawl

Snow Bird

Neon Lights

Heat Rash

Some Shit

Sometimes

Windows & Doorways

Trouble

Naw

The Price Is Right

Ambition

Moth Thought

Bronze Age

Cheers

Welcome To My New Digs

The Sound of the World

Fear & Rage

Passion Play

The Roofer

Marksman

Spending Money

Body Search

Appointment

Evergreens

Scant Evidence

Brian

My History

Thin

The Story of Me

Mud Wrestling On San Juan Hill

Her Song

Jackpot

Underbelly

Mourning Person

Jim’s Nauseam

Snapshots

Perfectly Sad

Once Upon A Time

Turf Wars

Standoff

Me & Her & The Garden

Calamity

Three Cruel Nights - Installment # 1 XXX rated

Three Cruel Nights - Installment # 2 XXX Rated

Three Cruel Nights - Installment # 3 XXX Rated

Mr. Sunshine

Oh, Shit

I Believe In Magic

One More Zip

Burn

Whirlpool of Forgetting

Not Kidding

Flagrant Foul

Memory Bank

Mercy Me

Breaking News

Do Not Enter

Momentary

The Fall Of The Empire

Progress

Feeding Time

Oh So Wonderful

The Things

Yep

Barbara Frances

Squirrels In The Attic

Down Here

There Was

Almost Forgot

She Got The Shaft

Betcha

The World Won›t

School Teacher

4:32 AM

The After Midnight Lights

WTF Gwendoline

Never Stop

Fever

Suicides

Big Girl

Dedication

Just A Night Out

The Playwright

Incarnate

Dale›s Apple Jack Inn

Rt. 95

SWAT

Condom Mechanics

Busted Wide Open

Shall We Dance

Found Poem

Cataclysms

Whose Hole

Makes Sense To Me

An Ode To Firsts

Ahhhh…

Conundrum

Odd Lot

I Smell The Rain

House On Fire

A Drunk For Sure

Eggs

Cur

The Good News

Tutoring

5th & Broad

They Really Did

She Demon

Two Weeks

Jail Bait

Jail Etiquette

Mastermind

Mitzi

Without A Doubt

Taxi Driver

Candy Store

Head Lights / Tail Lights

Beyond The End Of The World

Back On The Street Again

Russian Roulette

An Idle Mind

All That

Pain and Euphoria

Queen of the Moo Moos

Face of the Moon

What I Found Interesting

Sit Down Comedian

There Are Limits

Chair Of Philosophy

Killing Time

Poof

Off Leash

Shame Man

Resurrection

Relationship With The Moon

The Eagle Tavern

Dateline: Autumn 1964

Phil’s Place

Entitlement

The Angels Hung

The Other Thing

For Barbara Mathews

Next Stop….

You Betcha

Battle Hymn

Albatross & Neck

Now What

Marathon Bar & Grill

Roy Philip

Philip Roy

Another Way Home

Dwellings

Ah, Caught Ya !

What Could Have Been

Miles of the Streets

Sidewalk Art Show

Menagerie of Horror

My Platform

Sharp Edged Tumblers

Bertha›s Sisters

What Dreams

Gun Turret

A Certain Kitchen

Toward The End

Book of Night

Country Living

Intro

by Herb Martin

….he found himself…walking…walking…quite a lot…at odd times and in some very odd locations…deserted streets, the hidden alley ways,…that could not challenge…let alone satisfy…his angst…but the walks in the aging mall were out of body experiences…masses of fat fools, nubile camel toe teenagers…waltzing in different directions with varied lopes..trots…stumbles…the surge and waning of the tides…inane…meaningless…they stepped aside as he passed through…sensing the black aura..none challenged him to wrestle In the mud…on the hill that he was climbing…

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I like women who

have thighs

that aren't afraid

of each other !

*

there's a blue jay

in a tree

in my yard

that

dive bombs me

whenever

I leave

the fucking house

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Opera

Opera - I love the sound

of the word

but can't take a minute

of listening

hurts my ears

jazz on the other hand

gives a sense

of new worlds

new sounds

of feelings we feel

of the life we live

The Lone Stranger

from as early as I can

remember

I've been strange

and

I've been a loner

could never abide

crowds

a crowd being more

than two people

and two people

felt crowded to me

any talk at all felt