gershon hepner Poems

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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LIARS' CLUB

Ananias was a liar,
like Joe McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, Richard Nixon and,
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PLAYING MUSIC IS LIKE MAKING LOVE

Many people who insist that they enjoy
music known as classical merely say
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HAPPINESS IS…

Happiness is your accepting your
gravely flawed reality,
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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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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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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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The writer dreamt of Christmases as white
as prayer shawls he remembered in the shtetl,
which I believe inspired him to write
the song that lifts my heart like heavy metal;
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PREJUDICE, PARANOIA AND NARCISSIM


If paranoia can be rationalized
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HE DO POLITE IN DIFFERENT VOICES


He do polite in different voices,
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