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    Collateral Damage
    Collateral Damage
    Collateral Damage
    Ebook188 pages35 minutes

    Collateral Damage

    By Al Ferber

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    Hard as it is to believe, I was born. Been all down hill since then. One piece of shrapnel after another. Went to school. Work at jobs. Wrote a lot, drank a lot, painted a lot. And hard as it is to believe, found a woman who gets me. Her wrapping is a bit loose as well, of course. Worse than that I get her and there doesn’t seem to be a way out.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 24, 2022
    ISBN9781669856696
    Collateral Damage
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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

      Collateral Damage - Al Ferber

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      From Top To Bottom

      Jimmy Collins

      Joe Holt

      Blood in The Rain

      1969

      INTRODUCTION

      The whole damn thing is Collateral Damage. We, every last one of us, are Collateral Damage. Life is one huge chunk of Collateral Damage. The planet itself is Collateral Damage, inflicted by us Barbarians. This book is filled with Collateral Damage. Have fun In the junk pile.

      Al Ferber

      *

      and then

      I was pretty sure

      not certain

      but

      pretty sure

      the whole

      damn thing

      was

      shot to hell

      *

      I been

      accused

      of

      carrying

      a lit

      m-80

      in my

      back

      pocket

      *

      Willy did

      his

      herky jerky

      haldol

      dance

      on his way

      down stairs

      at

      Tangier Cafe

      to

      take a pee

      almost

      every

      afternoon

      *

      I blew my

      horn

      once

      and as

      Willy

      once said

      a lot

      came out

      *

      the horn

      of the car

      in the

      parking lot

      is

      creating

      mayhem

      n

      laughing

      about it

      *

      she dwells in

      a

      hidden valley

      an odd

      side show

      of mountain

      miscreants

      &

      ne'erdowells

      untethered

      by the world

      *

      she's doing

      her

      own

      war paint

      rain dance

      inside

      her

      own tornado

      *

      she believes

      in

      everything

      unbelievable

      and

      nothing

      at all

      cute trick

      *

      *

      when you

      get famous

      pissing

      on

      the floor

      is a stroke

      of genius

      *

      ok, ok

      you think

      Picasso

      hit a

      fucking

      home

      run

      every time

      he stepped

      up to

      the

      plate?

      *

      *

      Opus 39.5

      got a nice

      ring

      to it

      don't

      ya think

      *

      nine months

      solitary

      confinement

      no lights

      no yard time

      no one

      to talk to

      went

      bat shit crazy

      then

      thrown into

      the world

      without

      a nickle or

      a dime

      I got born

      greeted

      with a smack

      on the ass

      *

      kid

      skateboards

      across

      a parking lot

      a car

      doesn't

      see him

      no kid

      no

      skateboard

      no more

      *

      never been called

      either

      rapscallion

      or rake

      shit piss goddamn

      mother fucker

      but wish I had

      *

      From Top To Bottom

      Gus said the city was

      a collection of peaks

      and valleys caverns of

      metal glass concrete

      mortar stone brick

      black top trolley tracks

      cobble stones stop signs

      traffic lights dark sewer

      lines subway tunnels

      hidden civilizations of

      roaches and hungry rats

      with a smattering of

      people here and there

      trying to manage family

      live carve out careers

      of one sort or another

      eke out an education

      conduct wild or presumptive

      love affairs practice

      the odd religion here

      and there basking under

      street lights and neon signs

      *

      so then I went

      running

      balls naked

      across

      the

      parking lot

      singing

      "first I look

      at the purse"

      *

      Dude was

      mercurial

      prone to

      spontaneous

      unprovoked

      rage

      had to face

      him down

      on numerous

      occasions

      in my office

      classic case

      BPD

      boarder line

      personalty

      disorder

      prognosis:grim

      *

      wrestling match

      with ghosts

      of the past

      in progress here

      now

      sent for

      reinforcements

      but none

      have arrived

      prognosis: grim

      *

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