gershon hepner Poems

The rarest and most valuable kind
of Chinese porcelain is known as Ju,
a word which those who truly are refined,
might care to know should be pronounced as Rue.
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Inviting females for a quiet
discussion of Picasso, Nietzsche,
and jazz of course, may cause a riot
once sex turns out to be main feature.
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If Jesus was the greatest socialist
the world has seen, we should inquire
why he ranks highly on the kosher list
of people whom conservatives admire.
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Making privates public can
appear to be a little corny,
but usually turns on a man
by making him extremely horny,
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Frenchmen who the side that's darker see
are claiming that the US is the anti-France,
and therefore bashing Monsieur Sarkozy
as if he wore blue jeans and not smart pants,
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“How lovely are thy dwellings, Jacob! ” this was said

by Balaam in the wilderness, and then by Brahms,
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It’s when we’re going home together, you and I,
I love you most, and when we’ve traveled far
I know that I will never have to say goodbye,
though sometimes I may have to say “au revoir”.
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Without desire comes inertia,
emptiness routine,
Omar Khayyam found this in Persia.
Everyone is keen
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When you are making love do you
think often about shoes,
and wonder which would be the two
that you’d least like to lose?
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Lack of knowledge is no guarantee
of intellectual success,
but it is helpful for a man to see
no rules that he must not transgress.
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