"There are few writers who have been able to transcend the labels of prose, poetry and storytelling to create a synthesized artform unique to the literary world.  Three come to mind: Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs and Rich Ferguson.   The commonalities run deep not surface or perfunctory; the tracking of the seedy human minutiae of existence, the private hell of the greasy pop proletarian, the blurring of the paradoxes of benevolent versus malevolent and the sacred versus the profane, all the while using an interdimensional language bridging the chasm of star-crossed lovers and dysfunctional shysters.  Rich Ferguson conveys the pimply win/lose truth of Buk in the high-minded junkie Burroughs way of expressing.   Wailing from New Jersey, bombing San Francisco in the late 80s and then emerging on the Los Angeles ONYX Spoken Word scene in the 90s as one of the originalNeo-Beat "Idyllic Nihilists," Rich Ferguson holds the eternal soul of an...