gershon hepner Poems

Reaching upward for the sky,
dim capacity for wings
causes, in those who can’t fly,
metamorphosis with stings.
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Greedy, power-hungry people we
encounter every day at work,
the people from whom we attempt to flee,
because we don’t like superjerks,
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Nothing that exists is worthy absolutely
of our love, said Simone Weil, who was a lover
by default of that which doesn’t, as she cutely
proved by starving, trying just like Christ to suffer.
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For dealers who make stars life may be tough
when stars they’ve made do not love them enough
to stay with them, and make attempts to sell
their work without them, saying “Go to hell! ”
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GONE WITH THE WIND


“Fiddle-dee-dee, ” said Scarlett, fearing that the war
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Life is like a snowball, Warren said.
Find wet snow and a hill that’s really long
to prosper. You will never get ahead
with dry snow on a path that’s flatly wrong.
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Hans Richter Parsifal did not conduct,
and to the National Gallery he never paid
a visit, but he showed Franz Strauss who never sucked
just how the horn in Meistersinger should be played.
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Michelangelo, famous as fairy,
propositioned the young Cavalieri.
Since he was a basso
he loved young Tommaso,
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Some people say the Mona Lisa is
the greatest painting any man could paint,
but Michelangelo believed that his
were even greater. Since he was no saint
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Around my window is a frame
through which I do not see the same
as you do when you look beyond
the limits of which I am fond.
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