Herbert Nehrlich Poems

There sits, atop a cherry tree
a bird that badly needs to pee.
He's eaten cherries to his fill
and now is bloated, feeling ill.
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From Pauling down to Marc Levine
it took a while but now we've seen
that lines of cancer cells will die
inside a vitamin, oh my!
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You sleep when I brush teeth and shave
my thoughts betray a rather brave
but timid boy beneath veneer
whose ears betray what he can hear.
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There once was a poetry page
that let poets of any old age
post their works in plain sight
and await overnight
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It is preposterous indeed
that medicine today does not
concern itself with health promotion,
it does, instead, go overboard
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Well known to most in Medicine
is, that infarcts can do you in.
They stipulate that arteries
are to this human plague the keys.
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There was a boy from Baltimore
no peers did like his style
perhaps a haemorrhoidal sore
(they also call it pile)
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Ich suche ihm 'nen dicken Ast
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She had, reluctantly
gone on to Neverland,
where no one lived
and one could neither feel
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He had booked them the hot air balloon,
as the blossoms of love sang a tune.
But they missed it, though just
and his love turned to frust,
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