Herbert Nehrlich Poems

Remember to forget to remember,
that day of tristesse in November.
Akin to the mood of the sun
this can never be truly undone.
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Well, huckin' fell, I could not hold your hand,
it was this thing I've had since I was born
no teacher would, nor could you understand
how, in my soul the shreds of decency are torn.
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Someone said that Johnny Howard
is a godforsaken coward.
When the hangman pulls the switch
and the man drops in the ditch
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'What happened to your teeth',
she said with eyes that were alert.
'One thousand love bites really,
did what love bites can inflict.'
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Some twenty years ago there was a crow,
who'd fallen into our new compost bin.
He was near death by daybreak from the fumes
and danced quite drunkenly, when rescue came.
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At first they thought
that on that day
the sun had simply,
just that once,
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It was a morning like any other.
A cloud from the South, a sparrow
sitting on the windowsill, eating,
the Postman, ringing twice next door,
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I know it is your birthday, George
and you have plans all day,
I only need your answer now
today, my friend, today.
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She had blue questionmarks
coming out of her blue eyes.
Her lips were too blue for kissing
and a blue-tongue lizard was her pet.
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I tried so much harder
to get into your larder,
there were fragrances in
and a devillish grin
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