gershon hepner Poems

Would prefer to drink a bowl of elsewhere,
to staying where you are, with me?
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Aging means you may give in to “nevers, ”
feeling that you’ve run out of the levers
you need when you’re confronted by huge rocks,
to push them so they won’t be stumbling blocks.
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The greatest resonances come from what you do not understand.
The moment that you do, each resonance is muted.
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DÉSAMOUR


Disenchantment underscored
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Some people treat all facts as pegs
on which broad theories may hang,
but often theories have legs,
and so some try, without a bang,
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Wishing to stop, and be part of the dead,
despite this committed to forging ahead,
may be quite acceptable till overtaken
by time, in a space where we all are forsaken,
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She told the truth and told it slant,
I'd also like to but I can't,
because I have the urge to state
the truth unbent and arrow straight.
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They say that death must be a lot like sleep;
no need to count the sheep before you slumber,
for when your time is up you have to leap
without imagination, like a number.
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While some have claimed to stand upon high mountaintops
and photographed the panorama they claim to have seen,
this bores a lot of men who don’t like don’t like photo ops
unless they’re in the photo, and seem central to the scene.
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Flippancy, says Elyot in “Private Lives, ”
brings out the acid in damned light
and sweetness of the futile moralists, ” but wives
consider it to be a slight.
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