gershon hepner Poems

If your girl friend’s getting old,
and not frigid though you’re cold,
and she says you’ve got to mate her,
get her an eroscillator.
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If you’re on call all moments of the year
to visit places where you’ve never been
make sure before you choose to disappear
that you are wearing underwear that's clean
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Thus spake Satan of the survivor:
How can I overcome him?
He has strength and ability,
and weapons and firmness of purpose?
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If you, deluded, think your wit a sign
of great intelligence, consider parrots
whose brains, the size of walnuts, psittacine,
are good as gold that's more than eighteen carats.
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It’s comic how Nike, Adidas both need us,
and with their advertisements publicly greet us;
if one shoe should dropp will the other one fit us?
We’ll find out when players all dance like St. Vitus––
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Two nudes in different rooms,
two women wearing
silly hats: four wombs.
I am comparing
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In Beijing’s ancient labyrinths,
the hutongs, lined with terebinths,
siheyuangs the leaders call
dilapidated housing, sprawl,
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With the end of the affair
you recognize the bitter truths
that can’t be recognized before
denouments. Lovers are not sleuths,
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A wife’s heart is like water in a well that’s old,
but when it is aroused it turns to steam
and cracks the surface of a husband who is cold,
repairing it with cooling vapors of her dream.
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A hunter of women, and fowl and libretti,
Puccini relied on his maids for spaghetti;
he stayed with Elvira when he learned that Corinna
had cheated on him while preparing for dinner.
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