gershon hepner Poems

My views, if you chart them,
both for and against,
in utramque partem,
are past-future tensed,
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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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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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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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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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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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Allowing spaces to be blank
creates a hidden presence for
the inspiration you can draw
by drawing from the mind,
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White women flip and flop their hair,
embarrassing black ones whose hair is curly,
while white men in the showers stare
at black men they consider to be surly.
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Men die each day for lack
of poetry, a bard
declared, though for a hack
life may be far less hard
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Midnight,31st December,
millennium night, sweet Linda said:
“Two thousand ways now I remember
Mrs. Pavey, who is dead.”
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