gershon hepner Poems

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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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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Thierry Henry touched the ball,
by ref unseen, and wasn’t fouled;
the world observed the ref not call
a penalty, and Ireland howled.
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Up in the air while waiting for limbo,
living on tenterhooks, flying
from time like a pilotless, airheaded bimbo,
we act as if we are not dying
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When you think you’ve said enough,
and the going gets too rough,
think of Delacroix who said
it’s not enough until you’re dead,
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Hard to find for prostate rhyme, and reason
won’t always correlate with scores of Gleason,
the bottom line not length of catheter
but of survival. Don’t let math deter
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It’s a short, short time from May to November,
December to May, though, is shorter;
spring, summer and fall aren’t hard to remember,
but winter, and spring that’s so cruel in the quarter
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Reading letters written by
her sister, Nazneen learns that life
can be romantic, and will try
to play the role of cheating wife,
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If omissions are not accidents,
what’s included may not be
deliberate, and often makes less sense
than silence, best of derniers cris.
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