gershon hepner Poems

Sometimes outselling “The Catcher
In the Rye” “The Lord of the Flies, ”
which comes from the land of Ms. Thatcher,
proves Britons tells far fewer lies
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The future will outlast
us all, but it is to
our present and our past
that postage must be due.
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I did it my way, in the song sings Paul Anka,
and this is the goal for which I also hanker,
but just like that song which is far better known
when it’s sung by Sinatra, I feel I don’t own
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He wasn’t Hendrik Ibsen, but
in “Laugh-In” he recited
a weekly poem, he the butt
of laughter, and delighted
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There’ll be a blue moon on the last day
of two-thousand-nine. The fast day
that preceded it, Asarah
B’Tevet acting as a thorough
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Some say: Give me a fishing rod
so when I start to wish
for food I needn’t pray to God:
I’ll catch myself a fish.
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Americans in Paris
rarely will embarrass
the Frenchies,
who, when they’re in Manhattan
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Though his favorite color was yellow,
Van Gogh cut off, not feeling mellow,
his right ear, that bled,
which made his face red,
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“Swing that lady round and round, ”
in the square dance is the sound
you will, and do it so
with her you can do-si-do,
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Elijah’s struggle against gods called Baal!
A story where the drama’s great:
the proof that God’s the greatest in this tale
provides Elijah with enormous weight.
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