Herbert Nehrlich Poems

For those of you who like their beer
I'm writing what you need to hear.
The vitamins B-six and two
are present and so good for you.
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I see myself in the Jacuzzi
but not with your average floozie.
As I like some pizzaz
I may yet ask Mahnaz
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In the twilight hours
in the life of a man
when the spirit sours
as it must, 'cause it can
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There once lived a poet named George
near the Falls of Carnarvon Gorge.
He ran out of ideas
and to us it appears
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We've had some space now,
time has evaporated, strangely
I had expected to be sitting here
moping about, your name on lips
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A bearded Massachussetts Hippy
was going down the Mississippi
just like that Huckleberry Finn
who sailed these waters with a grin
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And there it was,
the symbol,
all things he valued
in this rotten world.
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IV. Sonett
O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.
Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls
- sein Wandeln, seine Haltung, seinen Hals,
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The Cantadora came as it was custom,
at night to tell about the flock abandoned.
It seems the sheep had left their shepherd,
not through a sense of loss or even want.
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I'm pretty sure, my girl
that your unconscious
and my unconscious
do want to get together.
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