Herbert Nehrlich Poems

In Mississippi, on a bus.
It was the heat of summer.
A white man stood, began to cuss,
he said: 'This is a bummer.'
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There once was a girl with ambition
who embarked on a difficult mission,
she was crooked and dumb
and as strange as they come
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God has created
a masterpiece, the human,
to be cremated.
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He was the first to climb inside,
a trap door just beneath the tail,
only skinny warriors apply,
though all, even the fat ones
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All birds and bees
and things with wings
drift in the breeze
as Nature sings.
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The swordfish swam
straight toward the dam.
In thick plankton got caught
he had never quite thought
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A man with a humongous butt
was injured by a coconut.
He'd taken Max the cattle hound
for a short walk across the ground.
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And as the sounds
of liquids gushing
subsided, a hum
was clearly heard.
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La Louve

The scent has come inside,
through rough-hewn logs
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His innate nature being stoic and astute
he kept his nose inside gigantic books most days,
but when she tempted him with her forbidden fruit
he first averted with finesse her loving gaze.
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