gershon hepner Poems

Women who are short are not
petite, though challenged by their height;
a lot of them are very hot,
especially when skirts are tight,
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Artists must exaggerate
in order to create their art;
breasts and buttocks must be great,
and phalluses right off the chart.
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If earworms are jingles one cannot forget
because they impinge on the brain like an iPod
then you are the heartworm I keep as a pet,
not a cat, not a dog, but a bicuspid biped,
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A tiny dingle Beverlywood,
to Pico south and west
of Robertson, where people should
on Shabbos wear their best.
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NEVER TRUST WOMEN


Never trust women, men’s ruinous ribs,
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Continuity provided by our melancholy
nightmares fill our waking moments. Only when
we fall asleep have we the power to forget their folly,
for once we wake the nightmares all resume again.
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Keep looking till they start to speak,
treat all things like a woman whom
you’d like to dance with, cheek to cheek,
to sense the fragrance of her bloom.
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Keep looking till they start to speak,
treat all things like a woman whom
you’d like to dance with, cheek to cheek,
to sense the fragrance of her bloom.
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Anybody who’s been taught a
little music can play forte;
playing piano is much harder,
since it’s harder to show ardor
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They make things happen in the world, like spells,
but only work if men believe in them;
belief gives them the power that compels
rejection of the men that they condemn,
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