gershon hepner Poems

WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND


Love’s not what we accumulate,
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Orange County, home of cultures
where the rats will sometimes race,
now is also home for vultures
dropping shit on every face,
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All-nude wrestling in the mud
is what I like, it cools the blood
that boils while watching other shows,
with one exception, Charlie Rose.
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“It doesn’t have to be a Harley,
a Yamaha would do as well, ”
she told me, for she was a dolly,
and not an angel sent from hell.
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With Persian cats, nobody knows
what they are thinking. It’s the same
with Persian people. Heaven knows
how they intend to play the game
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It’s hardly inexplicable
why some should find despicable
the music Felix wrote. When Shaw
declared with Shavian guffaw
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Sir Richard Burton, searching for the sources
both of the Nile and women’s privities,
found tribal slavegirls with amazing forces
that stimulated sex proclivities.
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The time before the mythic is
the time when anthropithecus
roamed upright, walking on his legs
except when he was having sex.
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By searching for an inner core that’s meta-
physical, we designate our spirit
as operating system we consider better
than one that, physical, has greater merit.
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“Ain’t never seen any white Jews before, ”
said the Israelite Hebrew, a rabbi, when buying
his meat from an ultra-frum butcher, a store,
which with laws of the OU was kosher-complying.
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