gershon hepner Poems

Getting out of cul de sacs
where I’m often forced to stop
sometimes makes me think of Sax
Fifth Avenue, and want to shop,
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LA isn’t Shangri-La,
but then neither is Tibet,
places where you may forget
who you were, and who you are.
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Richard Nixon vs. David Frost:
who d’you think deserved to be the winner,
the man interrogated, looking lost,
because the world condemned him as a sinner,
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While a servant combs her hair
a gentleman, I would presume,
performs a pedicure, and bare,
she fondles her right breast. The doom
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If you like to get things done,
Jack’s the guy you ought to back
since he does this with such fun,
always ready to attack
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Smooth and amiable, opaque,
with facades like scrims, genteel,
my friends are ones you ought to take
unseriously, and for a meal
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God-soaked violence, according to Bill Moyers,
is coded among Jews genetically.
Such liberal pronouncements very much annoy us,
since they’re produced dysexegetically
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Erudition and despair,
thriving symbiotically,
synergistically, a pair
devoid of what, erotically,
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THE EARTH NEVER SHIFTS


The earth never shifts
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TIME THAT I’LL KEEP


The time that I’ll keep
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