Herbert Nehrlich Poems

In the cozy chicken den
lived a rooster and his hen.
Other chickens had been banned
rooster found them somewhat bland.
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IV. Sonett
O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.
Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls
- sein Wandeln, seine Haltung, seinen Hals,
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A silverfish is not a fish
also not part of any quiche.
It lives in houses below par
that's where the roaches also are.
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I see you standing,
there at the Qantas jet.
Next day it will be landing
as if we'd never met.
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My neighbour's wife had an affair
with our local judge,
it seems that they would often share
a bed at Happy Lodge.
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I had been married to her,
for going on five years.
Pearl white in colour,
and the inline six.
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Lily will you call me?

I'm happy now that you are back
I missed you very much
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When winds come from the Northern Ranges
and blow their lonely songs through trees,
when nightbirds follow season's changes
and razorbacks and elk roam free.
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'Daddy, why is it that I have to go away,
again to special school for dummies
and misbehavers, troublemakers,
and the like, I know I am too much
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She talked about my latest offerings
as if they had with eager little feet
rushed over to her Lazyboy Recliner
to climb up on her lap and talk so sweet
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