gershon hepner Poems

Your head a pendulum at rest
is frozen on my chest like Mona Lisa’s,
your body that I’d earlier undressed
like the adulteress woman saved by Jesus,
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Controlled impetuosity
is less effective than
the vibrant virtuosity
that proves a man’s a man.
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DE GUSTIBUS


De gustibus they say the law
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In the Testament of 1802,
written in despair, Heiligenstadt,
Beethoven complained he couldn’t do
felo da se before the final cut
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Women who are well-behaved
do not make history, and they
take second place to the depraved,
whom history gives right of way,
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One by one the guests arrive,
but all leave in a swarm,
each one’s only half alive
and needs the rest to keep him warm.
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With my imperfect mind I touch
her body, and she’s satisfied
because I love her very much,
and never ever tried to hide
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Food on the tables,
bread, beer and wine,
still living fables,
silently sign
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While epiphanies reveal the whatness
of our being in the spirit pot,
what we hide conceals the notness
of the knots we tie becoming not
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Living perilously on a fault
that straddled disbelief and stranded faith,
he felt a tremor like a quake exalt
his reason, as if wrestling with a wraith.
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