Herbert Nehrlich Poems

It must come down said she who knows,
a handyman is needed.
With crafty Stihl, and he must climb
up to the very top.
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You slut, I found you in the gutter
with nothing in the way of money,
just needlemarks and drugs and clutter
you looked at me and mumbled 'Honey'.
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Fifteen hundred steps of stone
to the nearest telephone.
Up on top inside the tower
waking at ungodly hour,
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The snow had started at noon.
It was New Year's Eve again,
another year down the drain.
My new toy, metallic blue, ABS,
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He was a petrol sniffing man
he always carried one big can
to drive the hot rod at high speed
he had this everlasting need
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In the town of Bullheadcity
lived an aging but quite witty
Indian woman from the Pima
who was carrying oedema
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They stood in knee deep waters of the river
and madly brushed the shredded skin off bodies.
Two phosphorus grenades had caused a shiver
of panicstricken fliers in their bloody
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There once was a fat one with tits
who was missing some cognitive bits
but she could not resist
to try dancing the twist
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So, since she asked, I told my wife
that all of us will die some day
and in the first five years of life
ye Gods reveal to us, you may
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You have an overwhelming need
to smoke that foul tobacco weed
you ruin your lungs when you inhale
it makes your facial skin so pale
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