gershon hepner Poems

Try to find the people whom
you knew when you grew up and dared,
before you lost the youthful bloom
that you and all those people shared.
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They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden,
and ate it though they clearly had been warned;
the danger surely never had been hidden,
but early warnings they had blithely scorned.
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Shedding girdles and their padded bras
the early feminists all sought equality,
but women have returned to pick-up bars
to prove their serious interest in frivolity.
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“If we walk far enough we will come to some place, ”
said Dorothy, taking the yellow brick road
in slippers of silver—not red––to outpace
the standard of gold the bricks hinted in code.
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In the dreamspace lies a source
that flows to keep the dreamers moist,
till the dry words of remorse
wake us, crying to be voiced,
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We live in an unlikelihood,
dehubrissed by humility,
beyond the middle-aging wood,
defying probability.
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Sometimes I just sit and think, man,
thinkman turned into a brinkman
who likes to challenge every point,
until the time is out of joint.
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Mannequin vedette means supermodel,
and grignotage denotes a snack.
I’m always ready for a bottle
of Burgundy, and though I lack
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Thierry Henry touched the ball,
by ref unseen, and wasn’t fouled;
the world observed the ref not call
a penalty, and Ireland howled.
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They say the postman never will knock twice
but the people heading for uptown
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