Herbert Nehrlich Poems

The sun got up and saw the moon.
'Why are you out of bed so soon? '
'It is because a moon's required
to light the way when you've retired
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Then what are hiders?
Could they be spiders
or backstabbing riders
who cling to the coattails
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The lift was out, and people walked
down from the thirteenth floor
some also went (but never talked)
upstairs which was a chore.
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The wolf asked li'l Red Riding Hood
if with a wolf she ever would
and seeing shock on her small face
he did not mount a full-blown chase.
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In Biologie
liegt die Wurzel des Lebens,
das darf man glauben.
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O my, dear Robert
it burns to see you
have moved to fifty-six
from fifty one.
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You asked if my poetic skills
would be what an emetic fills
namely a basin of foul smelling
regurgitate, there is no telling
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Kidneys packing it in,
fluid on the lungs,
congestive heart failure,
cognitive breakdown,
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On Mondays I don't rise with all guns blazing
my head needs oxygen and interphasing.
Anoxic from the Cabernet (which folks are praising)
I find Fiona calling both of us well.....aazing!
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Attraction is
the
beckoning
of
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