gershon hepner Poems

Chastity and continence
are healthy and make lots of sense,
Augustine, saintly, once maintained,
but then reversed himself and stained
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Beauty, when it is in trouble,
must take whatever steps it takes
to get out of the trouble bubble,
ignoring all its past mistakes.
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Is Obama Mr. Darcy,
fighting prejudice with pride,
or is it simply that he’s classy,
superior, and rarely snide?
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Pinteresque the silences and pauses,
no Churchillian purple in the prose,
lost the hope in our Chekhovian causes,
Hamlet is our hero, I suppose.
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Some study words, some study lines
while others study pages
to find the lodes within the mines
of poets. There are stages,
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Hamlet found it hard to change the world,
Iago managed, for he was malign,
pre-senile Lear let himself be hurled,
and howling decrescendoed to a whine.
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“Was is not is, ” says Celia
in “As You like It; ” it is said
by girls whose hearts are steelier
than when they let you in their bed.
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Best way for the ones who suffer
a disease is treating it,
best cure for rejected lover
is writing with the wryest wit
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Having for monogamy a phobia,
King Tiridate chases fair Zenobia,
of faithful Polisenna having tired,
being only by adultery fired.
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MARRIED PEOPLE


Married people tend to be more pleasing
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