Herbert Nehrlich Poems

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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'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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There once was a lady from Greece
she suffered from badly worn teeth.
Her incisors were loose
she was long in the tooth
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At night, around ten
I will reach for my pen
and with caution and glee
write some good poetry
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Why Blueberry, I ask you now
I have now come to lean to green
what has been shown, I'll tell you how
but no, it ain't the lowly bean.
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Inside a weatherbeaten drum,
there sat a man, alert but glum.
It was, of course, Diogenes,
he'd fled the world and its distress.
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'Twas the first light of Dawn
at the Hundredmilehouse.
As I stifled a yawn,
donned my camouflage blouse,
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Fritz the fisherman fished for fresh fish
did that dull day discover the dish
which wife Wendy was working with wisk
stirring sage into sauce at some risk
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The Queen had visitors that day,
'twas Howard, John, head of Down Under.
She asked him 'would it be okay
if prior to the storm and thunder
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