gershon hepner Poems

He’d circle like a helicopter
the butterflies he’d study;
they’d know he was a lepidopter
and think of him as buddy.
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Reproducing with ubiquity
clowns and prostitutes,
Rouault sees iniquity
grow from religious roots,
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Cicadas do not bite or sting,
but one year every seventeen
they all decide to have a fling.
From underground they join the scene
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It very rare for Richard Serra
man of steel, to sculpt in error.
The shapes that he creates evoke
dunes, canyons and ravines. Baroque
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Tragic victim, Sylvia Plath,
poured on patriarchy wrath.
In the attic mad Virginia
showed less anger, somewhat sinnier.
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Some couples are masters of marital hush
and some of connubial noise,
for silence gives many old marrieds a rush
while the younger ones find that it cloys.
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When the rooster crows at the break of dawn
all people are supposed to rise,
at least that’s what, archaic as the morn,
they used to think before sunrise,
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Grain, potatoes and molasses
of sugar beet are fine for making
vodka to amuse the masses,
when they’re shaken or they’re stirred,
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Books alleged to have been written
by God, known as Jehovah and Allah,
throughout the US, France, and Britain,
Japan, and Russia, China even, are
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Mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,
toil, envy want, the garret and the jail,
and others Dr. Johnson has omitted,
like friends who think he ought to be committed
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