gershon hepner Poems

Just as we all know descent
to hell is easy we all know
that it is harder to repent
than making tracks for hell below.
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When James Buckley called the New York Senator
“Professor, ” Moynihan replied:
“Mudslinging has begun, ” “professor, ” just like “minotaur, ”
denoting bullshit not yet dried.
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If in the morning you can’t leap,
perhaps you should go back to sleep.
If in the afternoon you can’t,
it means you’ve been too nonchalant
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Breathing structure to a span
of Bible or of Talmud, man
becomes the partner of those who
created all the texts we view
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Though Venus now is hot and dry
it once was cool and wet
astronomers believe, but I
am neither, I regret,
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Flashing that is synchronized
is not yet an event
in the Olympic Games, though prized
by fireflies, content
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When the fireflies decide to flash
it’s nitric oxide that provides the fuel
that powers them with their panache
that makes them in the dark so cool.
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If we could only see the things
we tend to overlook,
not crawl like insects without wings,
our face glued on a book
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Taking off his plush new cloak,
he placed it on a plushy place,
to make sure that it wouldn’t soak
the Queen, who said to him: “What grace
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Goats do roam, and while they do,
destroy the vegetation.
Roaming with my mind, I view
Rome's debris with elation,
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