gershon hepner Poems

Deaf sentences cause the refrain,
“There’s failure to communicate, ”
which people who’ve been checked complain
when stymied by a dumb stalemate.
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Halakhah says it’s not legal,
for a minyan to be egal,
God, with wings just like an eagle,
Tells guys: “Don’t daven with a gal! ”
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At the surface lies the root,
Karl Kraus declared: what is official
should be considered to be moot
contrasted with what’s superficial.
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The artist, when beset by fears,
unable to confront the world,
with his emotions in arrears
since from his soul they have been hurled,
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While we with mood and meaning tinker
we strike a post like Rodin’s “Thinker”,
and hope. if nothing goes amiss,
that we will end up like his “Kiss”.
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“You is my woman, now, ”
is what I want to say now. How
I wish that that you’d allow
me to declare my love and wow
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Abandoned gas pumps, and saloons
where cowboys used to go to drink,
endless highways, country tunes
as earthy as the kitchen sink,
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In order to be mavericky,
like John McCain according to
his running mate, I’m somewhat tricky,
and don’t do what all others do.
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Identify, when off the trail,
the secret hiding space between
the thighs, between the head and tail,
that’s destined to remain unseen,
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Born in barnyards, see how roosters strut,
searching for a hen that is a slut.
Wherever men are born they do not care
about most women till they see them bare.
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