Herbert Nehrlich Poems

1 Here lies our country's biggest nerd,
his death was a surprise.
He never said a nasty word
nor anything too wise.
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Oh Bro, can you spare a dime?
I need to get some soup and bread
to feed my brain so it can rhyme
there is a glut inside my head
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It was as if the skies
had kissed this Mother Earth
so that her sparkling eyes
gave rise to precious birth.
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There comes, around the bend a shyster
clear eyes, smart suit and pink bow tie.
Vest pocket carries Jaegermeister
five hundred mil, to get him by.
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So does Philosophy then, suffer from
the superficiality of its apparent softness?
Or do you find it harsh, my friend, and cold,
its objectivity a front to trivialise all human feeling.
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There was a young lady from Perth
who was born on the day of her birth.
She grew older with grace
and wore Persian lace.
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There was only a note
on the living room door,
and in lipgloss she wrote
'I can't take it no more.'
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Said the good-natured mouse
who was sharing a house
which was really a log
with a goose-shit-green frog:
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And may I ask you now,
to keep, as from today
a chair next to your bed?
Reserved for me, of course,
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'You have been', said the matron
'assigned to Valhalla Hospice,
you'll like it there, I'm sure.
No one will really ever bother you
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