Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Inside a dark and silent cave
he heard the sounds of pain,
he'd ventured far, a man so brave,
had thought it a small drain.
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A famine swept throughout the South,
all mothers tried to feed the mouths
of their small children so they'd live
but no one had enough to give.
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The preacher, who was dressed in green
appeared short-winded, on the scene.
He'd had a helping of pink gin
which God did not regard as sin.
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Where have you little devil been
said to her daughter Mom Sardine.
You know that all those budding gills
entice strange fish to search for frills.
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Inside a toilet at the Zoo
a man was doing what they do,
he always liked the fellow's size
and feasted on him with his eyes.
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So, cover, Zeus, your sky
with clouds,
and practice,
like the boy,
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Who never ate his bread with tears
and never cried through sleepless nights
he cannot know you, gods and fears.
You place us here, from Heaven's heights
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I would feed you, sweet
our homebaked bread
and make you coffee
the way you like it.
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Under a green canopy
my two buddies asking me
why we ever came to Asia,
to the jungles of Malaisia.
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It always is the cortisol
in times of stress and strife
it lives at the magnetic pole
and stirs the faithful wife.
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