gershon hepner Poems

Paragliding with huge Californian condors,
our passion is so high no cloud can dim it,
and when we take the open road in hybrid Hondas
we feel there is no highway code and no speed limit.
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Are you the man who pulled the trigger at
the top of Bethel's Bab-ilani’s ziggurat?
If so, pray tell, why are the heathens ragin'
today in Arabic as in Akkadian
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If only there were some slight chance
of our transforming into dance
our song––our song then into laughter,
and laughter into what comes after:
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Narratives we tell to show
who we believe we are deceive
the listeners who are forced to go
with that one version they receive,
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Architectural power is in vogue.
Architects are never vague,
which is why they are so close
to power centers. They have class,
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Just like football helmets that create
illusions of invulnerability
irony can’t truly mitigate
the trauma of unthinkability.
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THOSE WHO DON’T RETURN


More blessed are the ones who don’t return,
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“Roman Polanski is neither above
the law nor is he below it, ” is
what they are saying, because they don’t love
consensual forms of coitus
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BEFORE THERE WERE CATS


Before there were cats all the birds had it great,
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HURRY THE CURRY


If journalism's literature that's in a hurry,
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