Herbert Nehrlich Poems

It was five o'clock in the morning
when I saw her, and, sweetly, adorning
her pearly white flesh
was a fisherman's mesh
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He lived through the intubation
and the five hour operation.
Then went back to his bed
where he slept and fell dead
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Logic said.
I was to follow my head.
Not my heart or
the whispers
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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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Is there a civil servant who was sent
into the masses of the common folks,
aiming official powers at the Discontent
or have we all been victims, once again, of jokes?
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I held your hand
and felt your fingertips,
they pressed into my flesh
as if to urge me on,
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Anticipation always rules
with silly and with normal fools.
The brain transmits
hormonal bits
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I like my Sundays,
most of all the afternoons.
When the same visitors
come around four,
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A surface, quite continuous,
infolded on itself,
outpouchings number
five in all.
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A freckle on my Grandpa's nose,
was prominent, but I suppose
it did not bother him in life.
Though Grandma, who had been his wife
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