Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Black as the darkest night,
surrounded by a thousand dollar suit,
and golden clasp on purple tie
he stopped his ship of fools
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When you left
you said little.
No clue
to where your
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The doctor sat in front of Joe
and asked him first to smile.
Joe did not have a thing today
to smile about, thus he did not.
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They used to laugh about
that inconvenience of the spark
of static electricity, that zapped
without announcing its intention.
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Clinking glasses
with good wine
while these asses
known as swine
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She flew into a rage, red-faced,
and yelled 'Oh Hansel, will you take it out!
It is no more a matter of your finger,
and times of innocence have well and truly passed.'
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It is today that you remembered,
they built the wall, seemingly overnight.
Berlin was what it was and would not be,
they said the communists were swines,
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A cocoon will provide
the larvae with the correct
humidity and temperature.
Thus ensuring the creation
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A blind hen
will,
undoubtedly,
find
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The hay was, finally
all on the wagon,
the horses resting
and a storm announced
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