gershon hepner Poems

Although you cannot change the wind's direction,
you can adjust the sails, and if you know
precisely how to make the right correction,
you may arrive where winds want you to go.
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LIARS' CLUB

Ananias was a liar,
like Joe McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, Richard Nixon and,
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Laertes thinks her madness is felonious,
at Hamlet taking peevishly pot-shots,
recalling his own paths called by Polonius
primrose, while she picks forget-me-nots.
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From Aristophanes to Sam-
uel Beckett comedy provides
redemption for the world you damn
by pointing out its funny sides.
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Nemesis while being stealthy
stalks the people hubris maims
while playing, wise and strong and wealthy,
their non-Olympian games.
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LA MELINCHE

Proud Cortes loved her. La Melinche,
crossed over to his camp,
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Does Joshua Bell, the violinist, have any sins he
regrets? To answer this strange riddle
ask his late father Alan who once worked for Kinsey
before young Joshua learned to fiddle.
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Digesting cholent beans,
schloffing Yidden tend to snore
and then disgustingly exhale.
Hardly ever do they fail
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HE DO POLITE IN DIFFERENT VOICES


He do polite in different voices,
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Small and soundless, the baton
is the engine of the sound
which have to focus on
when they become performance bound.
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