gershon hepner Poems

PREJUDICE, PARANOIA AND NARCISSIM


If paranoia can be rationalized
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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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HAPPINESS IS…

Happiness is your accepting your
gravely flawed reality,
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HAYDN'S HEAD


To Haydn's head his body said "Farewell! "
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There’s half the people in the world who hate
the other half, and half who feel great love
for all of them, The latter feel so great,
they look down on former, high above
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Groucho, Jupiter and apples by Cezanne
make life worth living in Manhattan
for Woody Allen. I’m less fussy for I can
survive with Linda, who’s my cat on
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They call him Lawrence of Arabia, yet
he told Abdullah he agreed the Jews
should be allowed their homeland tents to set
west of the Jordan, territory he’d lose.
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THREE GOLDEN EAGLES


FIRST GOLDEN EAGLE
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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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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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