Hazardous Waste Keep Out

By Al Ferber

This is a compendium, a collection, a litany of hazardous literal waste of thoroughly unacceptable manifestations of words, images, ideas, that no relatively sane person would voluntarily expose themselves to. So, go for it, dive in, it’s more fun than mud wrestling.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669872085

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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Rev. date: 03/24/2023

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Hazardous Waste

Keep Out

Beat

The Mist

The Bin

Best Line in a TV Commercial

Best Performance

What A Shame

Symptomatic

A Pleasant Fiction

Imagine

Before

Song & Dance

UNTITLED by Joanne Gorman Klein

One Against The Rest

Street Rat

Town Fool

Hunting Muskrats in the Attic

The Bay

People Of Industry

When Did The Fever Start

The Master Plan

Life Noir

Crevice

Fuck It List

Motor City

Boom Baby

Focus Your Heart

Practical Question

Cradle of Civilization

Eight Ball in Love

Rot by Insinuation

In Search Of Stuff In America

The News

Who’da Thunk

The Weather

Clouds On My Horizon

Caution: Hazardous Waste

The Big Question

Live Streaming

Merchant Of Cool

Neon Circus

Over Yonder

A Call To Arms

Sliding Board

Virtual Journalism

Idiot Farm

Death Knell

Street Walker

The Eclectric Circus

The Girl

Wait a Second

Elgin

The Creek

The Bells Rang

Something More

Seepage

Natural Fruit

How The West Was Won

Pornography

Sweet Oblivion

Connect The Dots

Windtunnels

Coronation

Anywhere to Here

KISS

Third Rail

Shit Happens

Storm Warning

Repeat As Needed

The Gathering

Insanity

Light Switch

Dyslexia: A Perk

Think About It

How I Lost My Hair

Question:

Sheep

Wild Child

Following Birth

Hippies

Dating Days

Mixed Messages

Swimming

I have worked as a

At The Zoo

Hey Dad

One Shit That Happened

Street Theater

Balcony

In My Case

Sirens

Everything

Painting

Old Times

The Lights Went Down

The Well

Fish

They Knew

Last Seen

Birth Life Death

Sewer Diver

Also by Al Ferber

Acknowledgments

Many of the poems in this book have previously appeared in Mangle/zine and are printed here with my permission.

Al Ferber Publisher & Editor

Cover Design by Al Ferber

Introduction by Larry Ingram

Dedicated to the memory of

Norman Newberg

Norman was my lode star, my teacher of the discipline of writing, reading, and comprehension. My friend of 58 years. Who died two years ago without so