gershon hepner Poems

Did Zerlina cheat with Don Giovanni?
It hardly matters. When we hear her sing,
we do not want to hear the sort of blarney
excuses for betrayal tend to bring
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David:

Gently the wind blows,
Turning the leaves of a book;
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“Sholom aleichem” is just half the greeting.
You’re always waiting for the other
from the person whom you may be meeting,
the affirmation that makes you his brother,
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Although his ideas have the taint
of Nazism he is regarded
by many as a philosophic saint,
and therefore cannot be discarded
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Envying Pete Sampras, quite aghast
at his enormous dullness, Agassi would laugh,
but winners have the one that’s last,
though he, as consolation prize, had Steffi Graf.
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Nonexistence flows from what is unpronounced,
the dried source of a watershed,
cisternal spaces in the head,
the prey at which no cat of Schrödinger has pounced.
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If the dreamer should awake he’ll see psychosis,
said Jung. The reason why we have to keep
on dreaming is to make reality sclerosis
less hard on us awake than when asleep.
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Women on the edge of being just
a little overweight are more enticing
than those with narrow hips and flattened lust,
on runways far more like the sugared icing
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Chimerica enables us to be
the house and live perpetually in debt,
the dollar’s falling, and the renminbi
will soon replace it. There won’t be a Tet
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Did being PC maybe lead
to bloodshed at Fort Hood?
Must Americans now bleed
because they’re told they should
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