gershon hepner Poems

For male Antechinus stuartii,
a brown marsupal insect eater,
the mating season is a two-week party;
he then expires like a parking meter,
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During courtship swordtails that are males
like following the females with a fin
as large as those on yachts tycoons may sail
to lead obliging mistresses to sin,
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Living in the Holocene
period, Adam spoke to Eve,
pointing to where ice had been,
and declared: 'I don’t believe
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Did humans walk into the parlours
of neighboring Neanderthalers,
and did miscegenation follow
in a cave or sleepy hollow?
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“I'll take the mazuma, ” said Jesus to Mary,
“and afterwards I have to dash.”
“Stop acting like a baby boomer, ”
said Mary, indignant. “They don't take cash
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“Is it chilly? Do I need
bracelets? ” asked the ingénue,
who was going out to feed
where the better people do.
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Small-mindedness is far more painful than benign neglect
which makes misunderstandings easily prevented;
when men are totally ignored they often gain respect
with reputations that, neglected, can't be dented.
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Encyclopedias, Greek and Latin,
a Baedeker that guides,
impose on vision their own pattern
in which true beauty hides.
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Unshakeable resolve that’s firmly locked
in fantasy is often worse
than spinelessness that’s very often mocked
in prose or in polemic verse,
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“Little fire between sheets, ”
George Washington confessed,
when it’s cold then nothing beats,
to give your sex-life zest,
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