gershon hepner Poems

“Eureka! ” moments sometimes may result
from outright theft, with Graham Bell the worst
example. For he traveled to consult
the patent of Elisha Gray, the first
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Injecting new thinking into the old
your logic can be start-of-art,
and though what you’re telling has often been told,
rethinking can help it impart
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Surfaces on which you lean,
or sometimes make a choice to push against,
once you have figured they mean
and fully their significance have sensed
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This morning I woke up again, and thank
the Lord for that, but wonder: does He sleep,
and stay in bed for hours, pulling rank,
forgetful shlufing shepherd of his sheep.
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Where there’s a heart there’s a pancreas,
for all the world depends
on sugar and, of course, on gas
with which it starts and ends,
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Kick your shoes off, try to be
my babe tonight, and let me knock
your socks off, feeling fancy free
while rocking you around the clock.
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Charred prayers that spiral to a God
who in a thornbush nearly burned
must seem to Him extremely odd;
perhaps that’s why they’re mostly spurned,
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Hunting for truffles can be lots of fun
when you’re looing for food that’s expensive and rare,
but those who write poems and think that it’s none
of your business to know what they’re thinking aren’t fair
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Schubert wrote “None but the Lonely Heart” six times,
but Goethe thought that Mendelssohn was greater;
as an accompaniment for all his clever rhymes,
it seems that he preferred a decorator
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Though rumor tells Chiona never
had been fucked, the poet Martial
declared, for he was very clever,
that to her mouth he wasn’t partial,
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