Out of Focus: Poem Stuff

By Al Ferber

Gus said things be Out of Focus more so than
his usule filters. left eye crossed right eye closed
for business. clouds fog drizzle mist cobwebs
n Spanish moss between him n everything. only
adding to he distortion and confusion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984584571

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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Acknowledgements

Cover Art by Al Ferber 2020

All poems contained herein were previously published in the pages of the Literary & Arts e-zine:

The Irregular Gnusletter Issues

40 through 93

Printed here with permission of Editor & Publisher:

Al Ferber

Rev. date: 06/15/2020

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CONTENTS

Out of Focus

Blinking Blindly

a view from: under the bus

Little Big Knee

Forsooth

Fasnacht Day

Leeward Port

The Great Green Cloud

….after this

Ramshackle

Last Tango in Amellica

Swept Away

The Beat

The Butterfly. The Tsunami.

Shit.

The Fury

Phases n Phrases

Notebook (archives - 1)

From the Archives - 2

Archives 3

a whole new pespective……,,,

Vehemence

Mayevening Showers

East Bumblefuck

South of Bumblefuck

Dumpster Life

POEM BY HOP WECHSLER

Two for One

More: Skin in the Game

The Color of Night

Enthusiasm n the Addict

Henry the Greath

Henry the Greather

Henry Got Greather

Sleep Wrestling

Smoke Mirrors n Shiny Objects

He Jus’ Blew Up

…so clearly

an on n on…

floor planks…

Dic ta tor i al Dis crep an cies

Soul Retrieval

Roy Philip

Xpress Yo-sef

He Wodedit

No Hands on Sword Fighting

…the dark variety

Gran-Mal-Season

Lady. Lib-er-tine.

Do Dah Undertones

Corner Pocket

Crazy Old Man

On the Head of a Pin

This - is a recording

21st Century Effusion-ism

Plethora of Dreams

Insidious Personality

A Mighty Good Dirge

The Voice of Descent

Lowest Form

and through the woods

Shadow Monsters

Jagged Round the Hedges

artificial life

17th Requiem 4 Opium-Dreams

Up n Down the Amazon

Requiem for a Dream

Oranju-shines

Stir Crazy

romance in the gulag…

Richard’s Dick-tum

Pulse

Waxing Pathetic

pluto-crazy

One Hell over Another

Dr. Strangebond

The Original

Blessed Bee

None Too Pleasant

Mr. n Mrs. Drama Queen

Down in the Basement

Wrought Iron Stairs

Mox Nix

Gaming the System

Damaged Goods

Gnu Conversations

Slaving the Storm

Sorrowful

Slaughterhouse

Grasping at Straw

Music Written in the Sand

Feeding off Dreams

The Never Ending Story

Just Enough to Kill

Contra Man

Map of Dead Roads

Mr. Scott’s Whiskey

Weeping Like a Train

Gluteus Maximus

Recording Machine

Marry at Midnight

Vagrant Side of Right

Outa Me

Why Blood over Soul?

Peruvian Ice Fishermen

Circus of Hysteria

We Fight Like Wolves

Fragmented

Whadda ya Spect

Cut Out the Gristle

In The Groove

A Favor in Return

Without Proper Papers

Redundants

Hildabeast

The Men of Honor & Dignity

Rocks. Him Chaser.

Reversal of Fortune

The Chosen One

George n Martha & Gracie

Pearl Diving in Wyoming

Passing the Bar

Where He Am Be

Wednesday. My Ash.

Emotional Crackdown

Demon Lover

The Wode the Wodes the Deal

Blinds & Shades

A Long Long Way

Working Class

Sails n the Wind

Crude Operator

Wode Up. The Pome. The Deal.

Knots

Typhoon Cyclone Bell Weather

Tree Climbing in America

Mimi Randum

Natural Dissection

Mining the Depths (part 1)

Advise n Contempt

Cases

1st Thought Worst Thought

Phantasmic Mirage

Infrared

Yellow Moon

The Idealist

Final Chapter

Loose Ends

Dial a Tribe

Public Scurvy Endowment

2nd Story Man

sense of something

Worn Out Fit

Fathoming Fathoms n Farthings

Studio Zeus

Things we got in Condom

Down the Cellar Steps

Nether Regions

The Sign Maker

Mani Festo

Out of Focus?

DEDICATION

For Cathi

My beautiful insightful angel

Take no prisoners fire cracker

Long suffering spouse

Also

Hop Wechsler (co-conspirator,

Accomplice & master minder)

&

Strap hangers n ball busters everywhere

INTRODUCTION

by Hop Wechsler

Sometimes, the more closely you look at something, the less focused it becomes.

It becomes so clear, it’s unclear, becoming blurrier the longer you refuse to, or are unable to, look away. It’s not that you can’t believe what you’re seeing, it’s that you can’t believe no one else sees it too, or, maybe, that everyone doesn’t see it.

A country declares war on its own people.

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