gershon hepner Poems

When Henry met Annie Boleyn
He said, “ Let the revels begin! ”
He’d been a defender
of faith, but her gender
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She didn’t know he really cared,
until he took her by the hand,
and not long after they were paired
for ever, and the wedding band
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Bonnard paints her enigmatic,
ageless in her bath, his lovely wife.
to stimulate more sexual static
in my well-aged but loving life
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Once Leda announced to her husband whose old,
“I need to be laid, since I’m feeling so cold.”
At the same time she said, while removing a garter,
“I’m so moralistic, I’ll die like a martyr.”
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Nobody has ever managed to annex
a single letter in the way that Kafka did.
As Joseph K. (“The Trial”) and K. (“The Castle”) , specs
provided by his name conceals that he’s a Yid,
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When women are twenty
they get sex in plenty.
Once they are thirty
they like it more dirty
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Did an asp kill Cleopatra,
commiting suicide like a shahid,
or was her death caused by a fatwa
Octavian ordered, killing her indeed,
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Relativism is a name for serious thought,
Professor Stanley Fish declares,
for one man’s don’t is often someone else’s ought,
and one man’s fears another’s dares.
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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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The blossoms on the flowering cherry
will make the cruelest month more merry,
far fairer than an emerald,
although they are ephemeral.
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