gershon hepner Poems

Reality can’t be remade,
say realists when facing demons,
proceeding to make lemonade
when all life offers them is lemons;
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MIND


Mind,
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“That is not what I meant at all, ”
J. Alfred Prufrock said,
and feminists recall
now Sarah’s at the head.
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John Le Carré says that he
was tempted to defect, in order
to learn the things he couldn’t see
remaining right side of the border.
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“Explanations can be neat,
and plausible and wrong, ”
said H. L. Mencken. They compete,
and cannot get along,
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COLD STARES


A cold stare makes you crave the heat
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Wash it it, cut it, salt it, eat it––
that's all tomatoes ask of you,
nor will one think that you mistreat it
if you consume it in a stew.
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Butch Cassidy jumps in the water thinking
that there’s no way he ever can be tracked;
he floats on air, deluded, but starts sinking
when posses chase, and try to spoil his act.
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Silent, the interpretation
from which love is born,
makes a sound with altercation
when true love is torn.
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Only by erotic love alone
can we survive awareness of
depravity. We set the highest tone
for sensuality in love
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