gershon hepner Poems

Some people take their chances and they lose,
while others never take
them. I would rather boldly choose
to make a great mistake,
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Psychiatrists haven’t decided
how to make horny women excited.
Best way, lady sitter, is
touching the clitoris
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When I cannot fall asleep,
Though very drowsily I I droop,
I don’t resort to counting sheep,
but fantasize that Betty Boop
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Clinging to your body like the scent
of onions you have cut is love.
You cannot peel it off and shove
away its skin, for like cement,
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They used to airbrush pubic hair
from photographs in 1930,
believing it was rude to stare
at it, regarding it as dirty.
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The music never ends
but plays inevitably in the mind
and, having, stopped transcends
harmonics that it leaves behind.
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Some say being Jewish is a weeping
of the heart,
while others say that it depends on keeping
apart
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Youth has no age, Picasso said.
In the long run we’re all dead.
We can’t deny this troubling truth
by claiming everlasting youth
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Appreciation of the wilderness depends
on intellectual humility,
because eternity's the message that it sends,
recollected in tranquillity.
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THERE’S A MYSTERY IN AN EMPTY ROAD, LIKE SILENCE

There’s a mystery in an empty road
which vanishes when somebody appears,
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