gershon hepner Poems

We laugh at gilded butterflies,
and know we shouldn’t gild a lily,
but who can ever turn their eyes
away from either? Willy-nilly,
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First wars resemble
a girl of great beauty,
we trifle, don’t tremble,
expecting great booty.
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KATE'S SEE-THROUGH DRESS

They say Prince William first saw Kate
in a fashion show, when wearing
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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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LA MELINCHE

Proud Cortes loved her. La Melinche,
crossed over to his camp,
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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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Rameau lets us hear the smile
of Voltaire, let me emulate
his talent, trying to beguile
my music mistress and my mate.
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When Sigmund Freud is introduced to
Virginia Woolf he gives her a narcissus.
He means that, narcissistic, she is used to
receiving what this flowery giver misses,
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SENSE OF SOUND

In Plato’s time fools used to say
there are no rules for music that you play.
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TUNNELS WITHOUT LIGHT


On a rope that's lower than my hip
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