Herbert Nehrlich Poems

A little ray of sunshine
is what we all need.
For some this means fun time,
for others a feed.
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A boy who had a scary dream
had nodded off, right near the stream.
His dream now featured crocodiles
that chased the lad for many miles.
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Her father was a smart dyslexic
but she was thin and anorexic.
The mother had a bad addiction
to gambling in her jurisdiction.
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I once dated an overweight girl.
She was cute and her first name was Shirl.
When we tried to make love
after push and much shove
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He's climbed that stony hill
a man with seeing eyes
who thinks and ponders still
the oh, so common lies.
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LP Gas. It's a second choice.
Always has been. May as well
be in the future, same as always.
Nothing special, just the gas.
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You said that life is pretty short
and that we should not think
that we are people of a sort
who save and rather drink
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O my, dear Robert
it burns to see you
have moved to fifty-six
from fifty one.
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I wonder if my calculator
could figure out your soul.
It seems to be, filled to the top
with symbols of strange science
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It was ecstatic electricity.
That touch of velvety, delicious skin,
the sun had, reasonably, retreated
and in the forest we felt wild and free.
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