gershon hepner Poems

Mazdanasyans, worshipping Ahura
Mazda, felt regarding evil, surer
than Jews and Christians who do not explain
that it exists as something that’s as sane
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Fierce, unfallow, always bleak,
my mind, when it starts looking back
at what is older than one week,
is unprepared for the attack
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From Saul Steinberg comes the gag cartoon,
and from Feiffer comes the comic strip,
from Herblock comes the politician goon,
and from Levine the face that like a quip
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Preferring freshly perked to Sanka,
my favorite movie “Casablanca, ”
I collate cold-cut collages
which, unscreened, turn into mirages,
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Kiss me as if it were the last time,
and I your favorite pet and pastime,
for that’s the only way that kissing
becomes no dreadful way of missing
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It will never be so cold
that lawyers have to run from dockets
whose value is as a good as gold
with hands in their handpicking pockets.
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If you should happen to be tootin’
your horn, do not be high-falutin’.
Please be a fellow who falutes
as low as other people’s boots,
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Hegemonically declining,
its wealth transferred from west to east,
we see the US now declining,
while entropy becomes the yeast
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Unthinkable, undoable,
excommunicuable,
undivided villainy,
heretical miscellany
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Before he hired Vivien Leigh
and said he wished to have Clark Gable
star with her, David told Max he
must write what only he was able,
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