gershon hepner Poems

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511.
Union

Union had a meaning almost mystical
for Lincoln, based on data not statistical,
but on the proposition all mankind is equal,
emancipation the inevitable sequel.
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512.
Right-Minded People

The term right-minded people mainly
denotes the people of the left
who think those on the right insanely
have been of reason quite bereft.
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513.
Slumdog Millionaire

I’m not a slumdog millionaire,
and can’t find answers in a quiz,
but like a Luftmensch in the air,
with lots of jeeze but sans the whiz,
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514.
Forgotten Pain Is Underrated

Pain, the only force that is created
without effort and with very little cost,
is, once forgotten, underrated,
bitter herbs of Passover on Pentecost.
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515.
Both For And Against

My views, if you chart them,
both for and against,
in utramque partem,
are past-future tensed,
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516.
Magic Flute

Three cords, E flat, the Magic Flute
Papageno’s glockenspiel,
Sarastro thought to be a brute
by Night Queen who cannot feel.
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517.
Time Machine

With a smell we disinter
the past, as with a madeleine
Marcel, notorious pasticheur,
once did. Words never can explain
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518.
Candle In The Thighs

When a candle in the thighs
inflames my woman, lucky men
like me respond without surprise,
allowing the equestrienne
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519.
Gregor Samsa

GREGOR SAMSA


He woke up in the morning thinking he was vermin,
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520.
Raven

Like a raven at my window with a broken wing
I see you standing, and I start to howl,
because there are no words that I can bring
to mind, and all that I can say is “Foul”.
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