gershon hepner Poems

Material man, like asteroids,
falls with a blast. Can’t last. Steroids
made sure he’d end up as a gonner,
sans reputation. Will Madonna
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I look into the mist and see
no glaring inconsistencys,
asleep, awake like Finnegan,
and ready to begin again,
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The cacti were in bloom that day
alive, though they’d appeared
as dead as rocks that round them lay,
by sun and hot wind seared.
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“Are you English? ” “Au contraire! ”
Beckett’s answer was quite fair.
Wait and take your cue from Godot:
let “contrary” be your motto.
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If you cannot sing a song
you may find that you can extract
the meaning if you try to act
the music to which words belong
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Motherhood that lasts beyond the cradle and the breast:
maternity.
Trading recklessly in hedge funds, hoping for the best:
modernity.
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It isn’t banks that fail in Yonkers
that drive me nowadays quite bonkers;
I live too far away from there
about these banks to really care.
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We need to draw a moral line,
and give up looking for another
hopefully more caring mother
and father, as did Coraline.
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Good food and wine produce a synergy
ideal especially for dinner ge-
niality, for I have got a hunch
the synergy is not ideal for lunch,
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Eternity bores Sylvia Plath: she never
wants to get there. All the gods know, she
declares, is destinations. Very clever,
but hearing about being bored bores me,
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