Herbert Nehrlich Poems

At first I thought she waltzed,
but then I saw the error of
my observation powers.
She waddled, all that blubber,
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So happy was the mother bird
when both eggs hatched two beauties.
Their father wore his light blue shirt
and then resumed his duties
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Cantankerous she was, his wife
she carried on her a sharp knife.
And when the moon sent her a sign
or after a huge glass of wine
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The little girl
stood in
the meadow.
She had been
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She played the leading role
in a soap opera called 'Days Of Love'.
It later turned, by popular demand
into a porno film and she decided
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Have you heard of a girl named Norina?
She's a poet and just fourteen.
Not an Artist, nor Ballerina,
but a poet with talent, and keen.
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In the sweet month of April when the clover turns green
and the fox and the wolf go a-hunting again,
is the life of the hare not worth MUCH, is it then
and the mouse and its cousins are now rarely seen.
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I love that hat, it gives some shade
to mammaries on this cute maid.
The melbourne Cup is once a year,
most visitors drink wine and beer.
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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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And I agree, which makes a we
who stand with heads held high,
to those who'd make the poets flee
because of choice in words, do try
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