Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Dear God, forgive me, Sir I have not only sinned
I've lost my bible, maybe sold it at the sale,
I pray today because the label on these tinned
and Made In Norway small sardines do tell a tale.
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For years I wore a beard, it's now turned rodent gray,
the revelation came; a friend who is quite gay
suggested time would show more kindness to the face
and folks would welcome me, back to the human race.
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You say a man is never free
unless he likes polygamy.
Insatiable, keen to play?
Let me correct you if I may.
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Those tiny moths
that are
in their dimension
just thoughts.....
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After ordering the stone,
gold letters on granite,
she would sit by the window
and watch the sun roll
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Remember when we met,
we were a bit perplexed.
We searched the bay
and all its parks, some green
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I will, of course, be one
who listens to you, God.
Let not my past be proof
all to the contrary; it is
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I saw you in that bottle.
The more I looked
the more I drank
the more you stripped
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I was resting my bones and my mind
as my e-mails did get far behind,
when a message came through
and did come from you
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A spider lived in our shower.
I named him Gus, he was a perv,
would hang there hour after hour,
quite motionless, with steely nerve.
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