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    Next Stop, Hell
    Next Stop, Hell
    Next Stop, Hell
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    Next Stop, Hell

    By Al Ferber

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    We are all on a roller coaster ride. We are all passengers
    on a runaway train. We are drivers under the influence,
    of something: love, hate, ambivalence, jealousy, lust, some
    element of emotion, unbridled passion. We are all careening
    toward the abyss. We are all on a crash course with isolation,
    desperation. We are all trapped in burning buildings. We
    are always just one step away from hell. Heaven & Hell
    reside within us. Which one, do you think, is behind door
    number two. These poems provide a roadmap to hell. Good
    luck on your journey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781479773190
    Next Stop, Hell
    Author

    Al Ferber

    Al Ferber got birthed, Went to school. Worked jobs. Followed rules & laws. Had wet dreams. Breaths. Writes paints. Loves with passion. All involuntarily. Had 54 volumes of poems & 2 novels voluntarily published. Lives with Cathi his more than tolerant wife of more than 37 years and Opal, a greyhound who understands American talk and can tell time by the minute.

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      Next Stop, Hell - Al Ferber

      Copyright © 2013 by Al Ferber.

      ISBN:          Softcover                                 978-1-4797-7318-3

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4797-7319-0

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Cover painting by Herb Martin

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      Contents

      Rainbow

      Through the

      Looking Glass Darkly

      Dali & Co.

      Thin Thread

      Dark Underworld

      Anger

      Gogo Bordello

      Kind of Surreal

      Passionate Ardor

      Save Me From The Storm

      The Scales of Justice

      Sinkholes & Imbeciles

        I.T.  

      A Good Time

      Carnival

      Living The Lie

      Social Expectations

      I Am Dancing

      Tom & Viv

      Godspeak

      Engulfed

      Skull No Crossbones

      Shadows

      Jetties

      Tree of Life

      The Best Parts

      of the Book

      Allure of the Moon

      Shaman

      Jawbone

      Revisitation

      Art For Art Sake

      After Quake

      Ghost Land

      Dream Catcher

      Red Stone

      Adobe

      Finally

         No   

      Le Grande Canyon

      Williams

      Higher Elevations

      Trailing

      Rises

      Arizona

         Zen   

      Elevator

      Breeze

      Passage

      The Third Eye

      Blue Notes

      Swept Away

      A Night in the Village

      Squirrel On A Wood Pile

      Imbalance

      Tear Times Two

      Aspects

      Balance

      Palette

      Another Tear

      Emotional Convulsions

      Undesignated Tear

      Blue Funk

      Diaphanous

      Bitch

      Young Blood

      Dreamcatcher

      Balancing Act

      Etta

      Sea of Tranquility

      Fire Road

      Up Against It

      Monsters

      Infinity

      Crumbling Walls

      Hinge

      Killing Radius

      Free Fall

      Cold Winter

      of the Heart

      Interspersed

      The Look

      Irrational

      Amen Amen

      Dancing

      Flipping Away

      Concession Speech

      Gargoyles Spitting

      Into Fountains

      Quick Change Artist

      The Doctor Is In

      One Song

      Moonscape

      Duke of Earl

      Danny’s Inferno

      Formulas for Suicide

      Tempest

      Physical Complaint

      Dream # 3,241,923

      Tomorrow

      Fissure

      Ancient Writing

      Artifice

      With Thanks

      To My Father

      Perdition

      Jabberwocky

      Friends

      Circumference

      Semiconductor

      Fits & Starts

      Crossfire

      The Interloper

      The Air

      Next Stop, Hell

      Tunnel In The Park

      Illusion & Delusion

      Evidence Based Research

      Requiem For A Dream

      Bad End

      Batman & Rubbish

      Mudslide

      Writer

      Collateral Damage

      Travesty

      Mandala

      Before The Storm

      Rain Forest Canopy

      A Fairy Tale

      Carburetor

      The Infidel

      How Important

      Chronologically

      Not Always

      Scribblings

      Mesa

      Dementia

      Up Against The Wall

      Dust

      Grappling

      Uninvited

      Rainbow

      I had a rainbow

      cross my path

      this weekend

      two solid get

      togethers

      of persons with

      similar missions

      a freshly scrubbed

      and smiling client

      approached me

      shook my hand

      and thanked me

      for my help

      a vision of the

      greatest legs

      I’ve seen in forty years

      the smiling face

      of a long forgotten

      friend who’s finding

      the light that exists

      on the other side of hell

      Through the

      Looking Glass Darkly

      The streets

      are blanketed

      in darkness

      stripped forever

      from the sun

      the moon

      and stars

      switched off

      it will not be

      a bomb

      that kills us

      it will be

      voluntary blindness

      to the truth

      unfounded prejudice

      to open thought

      the constant

      ignorance of racism

      the constant

      street fight

      we wage against

      each other

      bought off by

      the drugs we take

      wide screen TVs

      and high tech phones

      the pathetic

      inability to look up

      and see

      the evil puppeteers

      who pull the strings

      Dali & Co.

      The surrealist pushes

      just beneath the surface

      takes his paintbrush

      stick or words

      Charles Bird

      Miles Davis

      Dali & Co.

      Gypsy Rose Lee

      stirs it around

      and blasts away

      that first deceptive coat

      of this dimension

      into the less ordered

      dripping tears of the circus

      clown

      the circus

      high wire walker

      walking over

      the Grand Canyon

      walking over

      the glaciers around

      Glacier Bay

      the Fat Woman

      the Bearded Woman

      the tiny man

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