gershon hepner Poems

When you try to find a space,
to park your car you must engage
in parking foreplay, and not race,
intimidating with road rage
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Inhabiting apartments where the compass
turns to the Upper West Side, single Jews
who’re modern orthodox live on Columbus,
Broadway, even Riverside, whose views
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Flying, saying what you don’t believe,
inspiring others with your lofty thoughts,
does it really matter you deceive,
like priests with crosses that are really naughts?
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Mountains do not go away;
you have to live below
their massive summits, and each day
to their shadows show
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Witnessing return of the repressed
is hard for those who do not like fanatics
but think repressive thoughts can be suppressed
in London launderettes or stored in attics.
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Fundamentalism implies
failure of imagination,
surrendering to lies,
believing that creation
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Sextus Julius Severus built a wall
in Britain, Roman Empire’s wild, wild west,
then traveled eastward to the place they call
Palestine, where Jews would be suppressed
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Down the street where no dogs bark
and there are no trees making shade
the people lack a vital spark—
I wonder, when do they get laid?
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Intoxicating, unavailability,

hallmark of Almighty
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Lensky takes Onegin to meet Olga,
his fiancée. Tatiana falls
in love, and so, what seems quite vulgar,
writes him a letter that her love recalls.
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