gershon hepner Poems

Scarlett O’ and Melanie,
presenting the dichotomies
of feminine near-felony
and law, would need lobotomies
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Arrested possibility,
the definition of the state of limbo.
Bait with gullibility
for arresting possibilities: a bimbo.
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The area called an ecotone
is where the species form,
a very special breeding zone
where nothing is the norm,
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Society is bound to crash,
enveloped as it is by junk,
surrounded everywhere by trash
with grades that fail and make it flunk.
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Air-conditioned in their SUVs
the people drive past forests still unpaved,
deploring the ecologists who’ve saved
the land from which they all are absentees,
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Maybe I’m in bump denial,
speeding in suburban streets,
never showing patience while
asphalt tumors shake the seats
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Unpublished, I'm afraid my words
are stillborn and have perished,
inspiring people less than turds
a mad dog might have cherished.
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Pharaoh hated all the Jews
and so, to put them down,
he thought up, dastardly, a ruse,
and told the midwives: “Drown
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More poignantly than Kerry-Edwards stickers
the past is catching up with me, and flickers;
I see it in the mirror as I strive
to steer, not swerving as I’m forced to drive
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Scientific laws are very rigorous,
a lesson never learned by Icarus.
He was oblivious of the serious facts
determining the melting point of wax.
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