Herbert Nehrlich Poems

I was asleep but only just
dreamed of a local poet's bust.
Upon awakening it seemed
that poet Hogg, himself esteemed,
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At dawn one day I told my honey
'I'm in a hurry for the Dunny.'
Which meant, of course, I am confessing
that matters were, inside me, pressing
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Well, in a convoluted sense
I'm always here, in residence.
It's true I thought you were asleep
but I had promises to keep.
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A fly sat on a blade of grass
and leisurely there scratched his ass.
The leaf was drooping due to heat
the summer sun was a repeat
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It must have been a holy man who left
the gadget at my door that governs time.
And using it feels eerily like theft,
which in my eyes sure qualifies as crime.
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When I was still home in my hive
Dad said PUT your gray matter in DRIVE.
Doing AS I was told
made me fearless and bold
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An ipod for Tara is the least they can do
but I'm sorry that no one would give me a clue.
Did she win it in England or the world as a stage
was her poem a lovesong or expression of rage?
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When your life seems an endless Sahara
do not reach for the trusted mascara
If it's tears to replace
in your lovely old face
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A man, sweat dripping from his brow
earns his first bread and now knows how.
From bread to ham the step is small
and now the appetite wants all.
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Immersed into the waters,
washed,
and soaked
down to the fibres
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