gershon hepner Poems

Though men love sensuality
they often slander sleaze
in spite of its legality
that should put them at ease.
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Survivors state with great insistence
that proof of physical existence
is spiritual, a living Jew
providing virtually a view
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Entropy in Europe is no hoax.
Europe is Entropa, one Czech jokes,
in the spirit of good soldier Schwejk,
insisting that all fools should take a hike,
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Thinking about Malthus, Alfred Wallace,
malaria invalid, came close to beating
Charles Darwin at the post, but lost, his solace
the fact that no one thought he had been cheating
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Smooth and amiable, opaque,
with facades like scrims, genteel,
my friends are ones you ought to take
unseriously, and for a meal
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God-soaked violence, according to Bill Moyers,
is coded among Jews genetically.
Such liberal pronouncements very much annoy us,
since they’re produced dysexegetically
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Erudition and despair,
thriving symbiotically,
synergistically, a pair
devoid of what, erotically,
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THE EARTH NEVER SHIFTS


The earth never shifts
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TIME THAT I’LL KEEP


The time that I’ll keep
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Everything tastes sweet as coke
when eaten after artichoke:
they say its cynarin can fool
the taste buds on the tongue––how cool!
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