gershon hepner Poems

Abolishing a rabbi who’s the chief
is surely hutzpah that’s beyond belief,
unless the rabbi is so hutzpadik
that such views come not from a heretic,
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My favorite photo, for today
at least, is one in which the nose
of Zachary, my son, the groom, looks fey,
because his nose is luminose.
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Women tend to be more proud
than men, who are lot more lusty;
the things both sexes aren’t allowed
both do. My memory is rusty
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The future perfect equals ablative that’s absolute,
I don’t know what that means but it is surely aphoristic,
the sort of thing I say that many people think is cute
which I abhor as much as being thought of as a mystic.
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In China they’d call geishas “sing-song girls, ”
their value estimated above pearls;
Solomon praised women without pallor,
black the sign of beauty that’s not valor.
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Religion, when it’s being spilt,
creates a dreadful mess called guilt;
it can’t be cleaned up with a mop,
but may be by a Yiddish kop.
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They’re selling off a bunch of Hebrew books
From Paris, Leiden, Izmir and Bombay.
Bibliophiles all cast their tenterhooks
into this heritage, but few can pay
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Some think that death that comes by leisure,
lasciviously opulent,
can be a most delightful pleasure,
a Liebestod if copulent,
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Look with your head for what
you’ve lost, the eyes can’t find
the things that you have not
arranged within your mind.
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In the olden days it was the priest
who was the fount of wisdom, scribes and scholars
replacing him. Though many aren’t deceased,
now precedence is given to the dollar,
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