gershon hepner Poems

Whoever you may be I know, itt seems,
and do not fear you, for you walk
in my reality, not in my dreams
where I first found you. Let’s not talk,
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In Israel ecologists are bringing back
all animals which Bible writings mention.
Of Persian fallow deer there was a total lack,
as there is now perhaps of decent menschen,
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“Stop thinking about sex, ” says Brian’s mother,
when Brian asks her, “Have I a big nose? ”
Cialis must have been for him a bother,
before it was invented, I suppose.
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Up in the air while waiting for limbo,
living on tenterhooks, flying
from time like a pilotless, airheaded bimbo,
we act as if we are not dying
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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE


"To thine own self be true, " Polonius said,
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ALTRUIST AND EGOIST

Beware of every altruist.
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MISTRESSING WITH NEAT RHYMES AND NEAR-RHYMES

Misstressing is a sin in rhyme,
but in the real world is quite licit,
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Failure to identify a preposition
is very often the first sign of cog-
native dysfunction, so my latest mission
is making of such failures a new log.
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He who is taught only by himself
Will be by his own folly quickly mastered,
And he who takes books from my shelf
Without returning them is a great bastard.
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FIGHTS BETWEEN BULLS AND CONDORS AND TURKEYS

Fights between a bull and condor
as in the Andes in Coyllurqui,
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