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    Beyond Redemption
    Beyond Redemption
    Beyond Redemption
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    Beyond Redemption

    By Al Ferber

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    I have been described as being Beyond Redemption.
    I have been described as the devil incarnate. I have been defying all the rules of modern and classical poetry for over forty years. In terms of success the only difference between me and Charles Bukowski is my lack of an angel such as Black Sparrow Press to devote all their resources to publishing exclusively my work. This is damn good shit.
    If you read it, I guarantee youll like it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 30, 2014
    ISBN9781503530256
    Beyond Redemption
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    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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      Book preview

      Beyond Redemption - Al Ferber

      Copyright © 2015 by Al Ferber.

      Cover Painting by Al Ferber

      Author Photo by Cathi Ferber

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5035-3026-3

                      eBook           978-1-5035-3025-6

      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.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 12/27/2014

      Xlibris

      1-888-795-4274

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      CONTENTS

      Doorways

      Black Ink

      State of Grace

      Subway Life

      Shooting Up

      Phasing

      Madness

      Highways From Before

      Concrete And Steel

      Crack Maidens

      Again Today

      Artful Dodger

      As Long As They Can Hurt Me

      Bumps In The Road

      Brick City

      Caldron

      Be Patient In An Emergency

      Bad Company

      Cloaking Of The Moon

      Carpe Diem

      City Light Lights

      Baby Boomers

      At The Knees

      Back Door Man

      Black Magic

      Blivits

      Conga Drums

      Exploring The Background

      Dirty Mary

      She’s Playin’ Me

      Corn Fields

      Constitutional Amendment

      Crank Up The Volume

      Crumbling Down

      Dance With Death

      Dark Seas

      Dead Man’s Land

      Derelict

      Dirty Mary

      Discourse by a Nymphomaniac

      Down For The Count

      Down In The Alley

      Exploring The Background

      Fine Art

      For Granted

      Forgetmenot

      Funeral Arrangements

      Ghost Whisperer

      Fine Art

      Guardian Angels

      Highways From Before

      Home Invasion

      Horse Carriage

      I Am

      Just Another Holiday

      Madness

      Maybe He’s Dead

      Never Stops

      Night Engulfs The Day

      Nights & Days

      Off The Windowsills

      One Night

      Out of Focus

      Painted Angels

      Pale Moon

      Park Avenue

      Phasing

      Suicide

      Pinball

      Pooh Bear

      Posing For You

      Potato Box

      Raging In A Cage

      Recurring Hallway

      Requiem For A Dream

      Sand Storm

      Shooting Up

      Smooth

      Snapshots Through The Fences

      Soldier

      Some Musicians

      Street Fighting Dancer

      Subway Life

      Succubus

      Suitable

      Surrealistic China Town

      Tattooed

      The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

      The Call of Isis

      The City of Commerce

      The Cock

      The Dance Is Always Over

      The Great Anticipation

      The Great Wall

      The Impossible Game

      The Papers

      The Prize

      The Real

      The Smell of The Rain

      The Way You Look At It

      The Weight

      Time

      Tough Guy

      Tree Of Life

      Turnstile

      Twisted Spine

      Wait A Minute

      What’s Going On

      What’s In A Name

      Where Did It Come From

      Where I Once Dreamed

      Wild Card

      Zinc Mill

      Spin Cycle

      The Road

      The Snow Is Coming

      Now & Forever

      Once Again

      One Room, So Many Things

      Opiate

      Passion

      Poets & Painters

      Proposal

      Raccoon Eyes

      Rapid Strobe Motion

      Reading Room

      Red Lion

      Scrapper

      Shit Happens

      Shitting On The Sidewalk

      Insomnia

      Invisible

      Just As

      Knock Me Silly

      Life

      Lust

      Madness

      Mid City Mood

      Minority Of One

      Miss America

      Neon Trees

      No End/No Beginning

      Nocturnal Wind

      *911

      50th Reunion

      Against Age

      Anomaly

      Just Another Brick In The Wall

      Backyard Ritual

      Beyond Redemption

      Bukowski

      Cat & Mouse

      Indescribable Change

      Changes

      Cheating The Devil

      Coulda Been

      Crashing Clouds

      Crazy Talk

      Crow

      Cult

      Crow

      Cyclops

      Dancing In The Vapor

      Dancing Through The Light

      Daylight

      Demon

      Dirty Blond Hair

      Dream Mutations In Series

      Driftwood

      Dusty Cities

      Early On

      Eclipse Of The Sun

      Euphoria

      Expanding Diagnoses

      Forest Fire

      French Canadian War

      Full Throttle Hell

      Getting Ready

      Golden Gate Bridge

      Captured Heart/ Broken Heart

      Highlights/Lowlights

      Hot Cross Buns

      How Strange

      I Got A Love Who

      Identity

      Improv

      Snow Flakes

      Spanish Moss

      Solitary Pursuits

      Sometimes

      Spots

      Steppin’ Through The Badlands

      Still

      Temples

      Thanksgiving

      The Books

      The Burden of Me

      The Devil

      The Establishment

      The Golden Sentence

      The Streets

      The Walls Of Jericho

      The Witches

      They Call It The Blues

      Time Of Year

      Too Many

      Too Much

      Under The Eclectic Sky

      Underneath It All

      Walk In The Cloud Storm

      We Played

      White

      Winter Pall

      World

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated

      to the memory

      of Jack Apsche

      who left us far too soon

      Doorways

      You’ll find me lurking

      in shadowed doorways

      don’t know what to do

      with the light

      don’t know what to do

      with the sun

      am drawn to homeless

      people

      remind me of abandoned

      houses

      mysterious histories locked

      somewhere

      deep inside

      similar to finding great

      moments in history

      at the bottom

      of a discarded paper cup

      my friends all said

      I was crazy

      and I had no argument

      with that

      whatsoever at all

      even in the slightest bit

      but still hung out

      in the doorways anyway

      told them I’d get

      some therapy at a later date

      Black Ink

      The black ink bleeds

      across the paper

      forming magical shapes

      and images that

      glide into the night sky

      
silhouetted by the
gentle

      light of the moon
into

      the immeasurable
depths

      of
hallucinogenic heavens


      dragons horses


      women crows


      celestial breasts


      for stars to suckle
all

      circling
 a lachrymose moon


      amidst a storm


      of truth and lies


      the bodies of mortals

      
impaled on cosmic shafts

      State of Grace

      On the back of our

      currency reads

      In God We Trust

      the original motto

      going all the way

      back to 1776 for

      our economic system

      was Let the Buyer

      Beware not exactly

      an endorsement for

      a consumer protection

      agency well the buyers

      have been wary but

      outsmarted and the

      sellers have amassed

      wealth beyond King

      Solomon’s Mines and left

      the buyers left squirming

      penniless and in squalor

      Subway Life

      I entered the subway life

      the subterranean life

      the life where the weight

      of the world weighs

      heavy on the soul

      sucks the life right out

      the life where light

      is all artificial

      and hard to come by

      at that

      the life where air

      has been recycled

      and fresh air nonexistent

      the life where there are

      not parties or conversations

      except with the dead

      the food

      scraps left by commuters

      the gods of the subterranean

      the legions of the dark

      Shooting Up

      They’re shooting him up

      with morphine

      and he likes it

      and it’s legal

      and he’s having

      thousands

      of celestial

      hallucinations

      he’s having star

      showers

      of surrealistic

      dreams

      he’s having crystal

      clear

      visions of eternity

      and those steps

      formed

      from white clouds

      he’s having meteor

      storms

      of all the best rock

      concerts

      he’d ever attended

      he’s coming back

      from Viet Nam

      whole just like

      before he left home

      he’s having the time

      of his life

      just in time

      to escape the chaos

      Phasing

      She gets caught in slivers

      of time and history

      in pages and chapters

      of time and history

      at their most fevered pitch

      flaming and raging

      and rolling in grime

      she gets stuck dancing

      barefoot on hot coals

      dancing barefoot on flames

      she gets stuck molested

      by her grandfather

      at four years old

      she gets stuck

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