gershon hepner Poems

Everything good is easier to lose than win,
like money and a loving mate,
while everything bad is easier to win than lose––
consider enemies and weight––
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Once the story has been told
leaving what has happened cold,
the story takes a living form.
Despite the words that keep it warm
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If Israel won't hear,
God help society;
presence strikes fear,
absence anxiety.
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All words that are truly dear
may be repeated without tedium,
making messages more clear,
for the message is the medium
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Weekdays, Pico Boulevarding,
for a Jew can be exciting;
that’s why, borkh’Hashem, I’m barding,
explaining why it’s so exciting.
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Because we place a premium on our rati-
onality we do not like surprises
like the one above. A hyphen dash
may well have caused a momentary crisis
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The working Kabbalist,
according to Kay Ryan,
ignores the shellfish list.
Kay’s thinking “Life of Brian, ”
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Do you believe in fairies?
I do not, but I believe
that miners have canaries
that may help to relieve
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Prelude, climax, aftermath,
that is the story of our lives, triptych
that takes away from he who hath,
without bell, book or even candlestick,
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Requiring a contrastive norm,
satires conservatively point
far less towards reform
than rules that, although out of joint,
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