gershon hepner Poems

“Should we all be hyperopic? ”
now appears to be the topic
everybody is debating.
Saving money is frustrating
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In 1790 Mozart nearly got a great commission
to write an opera on Shakespeare’s “Tempest”.
Instead of this, when death became a major premonition,
he wrote his Requiem, and fugit tempused.
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They used to airbrush pubic hair
from photographs in 1930,
believing it was rude to stare
at it, regarding it as dirty.
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Bruckner’s symphony, called the Romantic,
drives those who like brief works quite frantic,
but those who like long ones
are surely the wrong ones
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“Swing that lady round and round, ”
in the square-dance is the sound
that you will hear, and helps you go
around while you both do-si-do,
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He held her tight beneath the tree
on which in summer there are plums,
and in the spring the blossom comes
to prove the world of winter free.
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A standing female nude has been corrected
by Rembrandt. She has shapely buns
the artist quite closely had inspected
while watching in the cloisters naughty nuns.
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Face being who you are,
Søren Kierkegaard declared, for being you will change
the one you are, the avatar
of all the things that you can do, if they are in your range.
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JERUSALEM AFTER CONSTANTINE

When after Constantine the Christians spurned
the Temple site where Roman vandals burned
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Before guys notice clothes and legs and décolleté
they pay attention to a woman's lips,
and they're painted they will try to find a way
to check their taste before she even strips.
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