Herbert Nehrlich Thanks Poems

In search of crime and criminals
I muster my subliminals.
Write poems, simply, on the run
and wish I had a loaded gun.
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A mirror hung there on the wall.
I watched it close its eyes and fall.
Your pen and how it does its writing
is in its elegance exciting.
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To date it is uncertain whether
much science can be penned at all
by an Australian peacock feather;
not that the feather would be small
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