Previews of Coming Malefactions

By Al Ferber

Everything turns to shit, breaks, smashed to smithereens, catches fire under a sun lamp. Everyone has a wet dream, wets the bed, shits their pants, steps in it, gets struck by lightning in the same spot three times on the same day. Ain’t it wonderful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669859390

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.

Book preview

Contents

Acknowledgements

Dedicated to Cathi,

Introduction

The Aviator

Breaking The Code

Just A Spark

Refraction

Micro Mini Stroke

Tropical Paradise

Street Theater

Sliding Board

The Interview

The Next Chapter

More Time

They Came Out At Night

Everyone

For Some

Through a Closed Window

Love

We Do Tend

She Inhabits the World

Weed Keeper

Opera House

Books

The Edge

Stairs

Magic Spot

Canvases Await

Empathy

The Plug

Interrogation

Porta Potty

The Tryst

First

The Paintings

Groups

Every Single Time

Polar Active

Well, Does It

Who Needs Toilet Paper

chronic illness and dreams

Incurable

Hmmm

Counter Clockwise

Tensile Strength

Wise men

This Has Not Been A Burden

Sewer Diver

Tinted Windows

Traveler

Steele Pier

Very Musing

Demolition Derby

Today’s

Portrait of Me as a Writer

Hot Chucks

Getting My Story Together

Malcontent

Fundamentalist

One Phone Call

Enlightenment

Of Neal Cassady

Just Got Back

Chaos

Cleopatra

Riding The Bus

Can’t Touch Him

⁴th Grade

Sit Down Comedian

Assamine

Talk About Dissing

Late Start

Talk About Dissing

The Rose that Grows through Cracks in the Sidewalk

Sometimes

Saint Lawerence Seaway

On This Day. In This Hour

Testing Testing

I Did Lust Her For Her Tits. So Sue Me.

Sinner

Rock Bottom

I Did It

Somehow

My Lady

The Window Frame

Much Ado About What

Phoenix

Self Portrait

Playing the Margins

Me 1 Dumpster 0

But I Won’t

Bitch Killed It

Skating Rink

Why

The Window Frame

Much Ado About What

Miracle of Miracles

I Know I Know

Reconnoiter

Testosterone & Poetry

It Seems In Dreams

Personal Hell

15 Minutes of Sainthood

Walking on the Bottom of the River

The Moment

Slivers and Blotches

Acknowledgements

All poems have appeared in Mangle/zine or Evolution of an Accidental Painting. Reprinted here with permission of the author, publisher, and editor Al Ferber

All names, situations, stories, scenarios, and events described

herein are fictitious.

Cover Art by Al Ferber

Introduction by Al Ferber

Dedicated to Cathi,

my long surfing wife who has

been my patron for all these

writing

and painting shenanigans…

and to anyone who has had to

leave a party early because I

was there.

Introduction

Malefaction: breach, crime, debt, error, law breaking,

misdeed, misdoing, offense, transgression, trespass,

sin, violation, wrong doing,,,,and the like. Need I say

more ?

Al Ferber

*

Oh, here comes

the sun,

a mad scramble

to change seats,

but nobody,

nobody

goes in the pool.

*

I think I forgot

to use the term

self absorbed.

Did I forget

to use the term

self