gershon hepner Poems

When I am old and still inflamed of you,
what will you charge me for my interest in
your body? For what I will want to do,
will you charge interest, though that is a sin?
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We, nearly all of us, have windows at the back,
and most of us have windows at the side,
but it’s the ones in front we tend to lack,
explaining why our angle isn’t wide.
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“Would you like to see my other tattoos? ”
is a question that sadly I rarely am asked
by ladies who tantalize with distant views
of the ink in their skin which they’ve boldly unmasked.
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Knowledge is most forgeable
by those who are incorrigible;
and progress is dependent on
rejection of what seemed foregone
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74 kilometers per second per parsec,
each one of them some 3.2
million light years, plus a few,
is Hubble’s constant. Makes me car sick
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Some think the deadliest of sins is pride,
while others say the worst is vanity;
each one can make a man sound sense deride,
deluding with supposed urbanity.
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Gender reversal can lead to chaos.
Men, we must stick to our roles
with our specific gender goals
or women never will obey us.
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When focusing too hard on putts
golfers suffer from the yips,
and those who focus hard on butts
and breasts and what’s below the hips
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The role of intellectuals is to curb

the arrogance of those who rule,
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Blake thought with firm persuasion
that honest indignation
must be God’s voice, and cited
prophets who indicted
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