gershon hepner Poems

He who is taught only by himself
Will be by his own folly quickly mastered,
And he who takes books from my shelf
Without returning them is a great bastard.
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FIGHTS BETWEEN BULLS AND CONDORS AND TURKEYS

Fights between a bull and condor
as in the Andes in Coyllurqui,
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Failure to identify a preposition
is very often the first sign of cog-
native dysfunction, so my latest mission
is making of such failures a new log.
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ALTRUIST AND EGOIST

Beware of every altruist.
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MISTRESSING WITH NEAT RHYMES AND NEAR-RHYMES

Misstressing is a sin in rhyme,
but in the real world is quite licit,
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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE


"To thine own self be true, " Polonius said,
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'Baroque prose poets who had lost their way' was the expression
That W. Somerset Maugham
Used for the authors of the famous King James Bible version, Demonstrating good form
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They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden,
and ate it though they clearly had been warned;
the danger surely never had been hidden,
but early warnings they had blithely scorned.
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Shedding girdles and their padded bras
the early feminists all sought equality,
but women have returned to pick-up bars
to prove their serious interest in frivolity.
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Try to find the people whom
you knew when you grew up and dared,
before you lost the youthful bloom
that you and all those people shared.
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