gershon hepner Poems

Dolce & Gabbana hovers
on a billboard. Demonstrators
herded by divine dictators
luxuriate listlessly as lovers
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The forces that control how we behave are hidden, and
unconscious biases controlling us are so pervasive
that if we truly hope objectively to understand
our actions we must see the biases that are pervasive.
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But there’s only one of you, they say
you are a single star
which is the only truth
I know and it’s uncouth
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In his famous book, Stendahl
describes a man who loves his aunt,
literarily scandale
to which I would be nonchalant
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Tricks are narrative competing
in contests for belief
between two parties never meeting
halfway. Like a thief,
each party steals attention that
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With George Clooney, in the air air,
you may feel ectastic though
he is showing wear and tear,
with a grey tinge to his glow.
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Bum Rap
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They muddy the water to make it seem deep,
said Nietzsche, but I am so shallow
my candle when burning puts people to sleep
and wish that I’d run out of tallow.
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I sing of Rahab, meaning “Broad, ”
not “innkeeper—she was a whore,
and very proud to be a bawd,
a fact that puritans abhor,
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Shorthand for trying
to put the clock back and to be
as in your twenties and to flee
all thoughts of dying,
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