Herbert Nehrlich Poems

We held our hands
just you and me.
And gave our vows.
No kidding.
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'Size matters', the midwife said,
he weighed two pounds or less,
about the size of a big chunk
of butter freshly churned that day.
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How times have changed!
I used to open letters from my girl
so carefully-
and touch the pre-licked glue
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Come dance with me
At the Star-kissed shores
Salt water wavelets
Lap at our sores.
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' Just the facts', the gruff detective yelled,
they'd stopped the Greyhound two miles out of town,
two hundred big ones in a paper bag, contents withheld
from preying eyes, but I had surely been the clown
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Please can I be your Valentine
I'm just a little nut.
I'll spoil you with Italian wine
I'll sing outside your hut.
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Clinking glasses
with good wine
while these asses
known as swine
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She flew into a rage, red-faced,
and yelled 'Oh Hansel, will you take it out!
It is no more a matter of your finger,
and times of innocence have well and truly passed.'
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When you left
you said little.
No clue
to where your
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Black as the darkest night,
surrounded by a thousand dollar suit,
and golden clasp on purple tie
he stopped his ship of fools
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