gershon hepner Poems

Seen as sex objects, purely
domestic creatures, wives
must feel indignant, surely,
the ones who’ve got their lives,
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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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I sing of Rahab, meaning “Broad, ”
not “innkeeper—she was a whore,
and very proud to be a bawd,
a fact that puritans abhor,
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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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Dolce & Gabbana hovers
on a billboard. Demonstrators
herded by divine dictators
luxuriate listlessly as lovers
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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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