gershon hepner Poems

With a smell we disinter
the past, as with a madeleine
Marcel, notorious pasticheur,
once did. Words never can explain
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When a candle in the thighs
inflames my woman, lucky men
like me respond without surprise,
allowing the equestrienne
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Row, row, row the boat,
gently down the stream
of consciousness, and take close note
of things of which you dream
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Infrastructure is what we
all take for granted something that
we think that we deserve for free
like fresh air or a feral cat.
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Erudition, rhetoric and mastery of trivia
can leave a person feeling dumb
compared with someone who has talents which, although they’re iffier,
provide him depths more hard to plumb.
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In Rotterdam, the dancers gen-
erate the watts that help to light
the bulbs. Electrically the men
and women grow like tulips-lite
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Sometimes sweet, transsexual, and
transvestite, Transylvanian rarely,
dark and gloomy, never bland,
covered gothically, not barely
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Since we lack connectivity
of habitat how can we satisfy
our mutual proclivity
to give each others a great high?
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Is eternity a time that we
muck over all minutiae of life,
or could it be an opportunity
to cut through all of them, eternal knife
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Topless, Salome succeeds
in making John the Baptist headless
by going topless, shedding weeds
like melted sunburnt wings of Daedalus.
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