gershon hepner Poems

Goldman Sachs, the giant vampire squid,
wrapped around our faces with a funnel,
sits upon a Ponzi pyramid,
preventing light to shine within its tunnel.
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“Who is that weasel giving my son David a hard time? ”
a mother asked when watching him appear before the judge.
It’s what my wife will say to you if you don’t like my rhyme.
You are not Felix Frankfurter, and she will bear a grudge
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In novels most narrators are reliable,
the version of their stories undeniable.
In life, however, stories we relate may vary
from the facts considerably, for truth is scary.
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Tom Friedman says that we need poetry, not prose,
to get this country into better shape.
Although we surely know a rose would be a rose
if called by any other name, a grape
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The greatest stimulant of life is hope,
more powerful than joyat's realized;
though you may hang yourself with this long rope,
when suffocating, do not be surpris\ed.
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The wells that Isaac dug became the cause
of envy among all the Philistines,
who claimed he violated every clause
of contracts, reading small print between lines.
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Some sopranos are like high-explosive shells
and others are like Queens of Night on acid,
a few of them have voices like cracked bells,
but you will rarely hear one who is placid.
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Words a Polish girl was talking
in a train confused the poet Phil,
causing him to give up stalking.
He thought there was no chance that she could thrill
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Proverbs


Wisdom is the counsel that is woven
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Disintegration’ irresistible
as your stock falls in the love exchange
and deemed to be no longer listable,
but may recover in the longer range.
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