Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Dear Doctor, would you tell me please
why your computer gets attention.
I came to you with MY disease,
you listened vaguely, not to mention,
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As if you didn't know.
It's nothing to do with you,
or me, for that matter.
It's circumstances,
...

Pilshoffer was the name
of our old teacher,
'twas chemistry that made him
what he was and clung to.
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At last she had arrived, hips swinging.
Boobs leading,
heels clicking,
unhurried, rather strolling.
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Lonesome and hot,
covered with dust
the Hilton it's not
and the work is a must.
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'But do not come to Daddy,
crying, come Monday morning
expecting to pay what I offer you
right here and now, so come,
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When I woke in the morning at home
at the bedside there was a new feature,
it looked a bit like a small gnome
or some other benevolent creature.
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Oh yes, the LOTTERY.
Another one I did not,
would not, could not
participate in, yet
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Yes, it is me
who looks at You
from the oddest places and strangest faces
as I just happen to be
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He was an old man now.
Still digging graves at
our cemetary.
Pick axe and shovel,
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