gershon hepner Poems

Future memories that we create
when celebrating what is here and now
are often lost till we investigate
how they came to be stored, and we allow
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Memoirs of a former child
often drive an adult wild;
tales of strangers whom they've jilted,
snows of yesteryear that melted,
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So many femmes fatales the bible
describes, the first one Eve,
for she could not refute as libel
the story men believe.
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Claiming to have done due diligence,
Harold Pinter, being prized, derides
Americans, who suffocate intelligence
voluptuously on cushions supersized.
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“There’s no miraculous escape–
Shechem’s synonymous with rape, ”
they told their father, in his camp
where he sat sweating, hands cold, damp,
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A sad wine lack complexity,
like empty skeletons exhumed,
or men without perplexity,
who never seem to be consumed
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The novel, mental basement, is defined
by differing rooms that make it democratic,
while poetry is always undermined
by autocratic thoughts within the attic,
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Femme maison, woman with a house
where normally you find a head.
This is not a perfect spouse––
I would rather see a bed.
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Faceless lovers, one who has a leg
that’s an above-the-knee prosthesis,
in the missionary position beg
for sex that must be anesthetic
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INSPIRATION

It isn’t where my motivation
comes from, but how it survives.
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