gershon hepner Poems

The time before the mythic is
the time when anthropithecus
roamed upright, walking on his legs
except when he was having sex.
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By searching for an inner core that’s meta-
physical, we designate our spirit
as operating system we consider better
than one that, physical, has greater merit.
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“Ain’t never seen any white Jews before, ”
said the Israelite Hebrew, a rabbi, when buying
his meat from an ultra-frum butcher, a store,
which with laws of the OU was kosher-complying.
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But there’s only one of you, they say
you are a single star
which is the only truth
I know and it’s uncouth
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The forces that control how we behave are hidden, and
unconscious biases controlling us are so pervasive
that if we truly hope objectively to understand
our actions we must see the biases that are pervasive.
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In his famous book, Stendahl
describes a man who loves his aunt,
literarily scandale
to which I would be nonchalant
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Tricks are narrative competing
in contests for belief
between two parties never meeting
halfway. Like a thief,
each party steals attention that
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With George Clooney, in the air air,
you may feel ectastic though
he is showing wear and tear,
with a grey tinge to his glow.
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Bum Rap
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They muddy the water to make it seem deep,
said Nietzsche, but I am so shallow
my candle when burning puts people to sleep
and wish that I’d run out of tallow.
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