Herbert Nehrlich Poems

At the edge of Fallbrook Forest
so distant from the city, inhabited
by Haves and Have-Nots,
I dwell, a cabin without shutters
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I do not like them, not at all.
Their feline nature drives me mad,
in Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall
our cat, named Lucy made me sad.
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The ladder was still there.
Leaning, as if worn
and ready to retire now,
after those decades
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I am aware that
this is asking
a bit too much.
Perhaps it is
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Those who will not reason
'Perish in the act;
Those who will not act
Perish for that reason.'
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New Year has come, two-thousand-six,
it desperately needs a fix.
The biggest known deficiency
is what we call omega-three.
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Man who ran in front
of car got really tired.
And they were Dunlops.
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Once on a time, there lived a kind
and pretty girl, completely blind
outside the town of Maladise,
inside a shack of tiny size.
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What if the world
was made up of
the lovely people.
I could name names
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A vibratory instrument
more often used in early Lent
due to the rising of the sap
that Mother Nature has on tap,
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