gershon hepner Poems

The nicest wife who was my knower
Was Linda Ruth, and born as Roer.
She lost her cool once, being very
Unguarding of her precious cherry.
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Rejecting time and time again
ideas that had been preconceived
is what most artists do and then
reject again once they're received.
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I do not write down all the words I hear
in buses, restaurants or parks or theaters.
The reason’s not a problem with my ear,
I have a healthy auditory meatus,
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Rejected by so many, thwacked with a thump,
and by the electorate darn nearly dumped,
diminished in polls by majority vote,
deep-sixed in a creek where your shit doesn’t float,
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Show less, leave more to the imagination,
becomes the rule that every stripper knows,
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Representing saints with paint
is to the mind of moderns quaint.
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It's surely very hard indeed
to relish life without a treasure,
but harder still to have no need,
and be contented with the pleasure
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Give a girl a little rope
if she is a phallotrope
and she’ll hang herself on you,
doing what you love to do.
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He climbed tall mountains hardly Dutch
and crossed cool desert streams,
while on the oceans he would clutch
the asphalt, but he dreams
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Humpty-Dumpty
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