gershon hepner Poems

HURRY THE CURRY


If journalism's literature that's in a hurry,
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BEFORE THERE WERE CATS


Before there were cats all the birds had it great,
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DEFENDING HELEN OF TROY


Though Helen of Troy appears most overamorous
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Shed, shed yourself on me and mine,
and all your essence spill,
I mean the love I’ll drink like wine
and whisky, till I fill
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Climb and try to touch the void
powered by your will;
happy to be unemployed,
you can’t roll downhill.
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Though golden lads and girls all must
like chimney sweepers come to dust,
declared, in Cymbeline, the Bard.
this point of view is rather hard
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Love when unfulfilled
is the most romantic
form. When love’s fulfilled
it won’t drive you as frantic
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Men and women all alone within a room,
are the subjects whom painter Francis Bacon
portrays in spaces he’s transformed from womb to tomb,
isolated, and disturbed, alone, forsaken.
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Music must have wings and float:
ignore all that it signifies,
for the importance of each note
should be apparent when it flies.
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Lacy tights on lovely legs
are joys for which this poet begs.
Applied together with high heels,
they call to me with sex appeals,
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