gershon hepner Poems

Three matriarchs appeared quite sterile,
Sarah and Rebekkah and
young Rachel who, though fair, was feral
when Jacob worked to seek her hand.
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Face being who you are,
Søren Kierkegaard declared, for being you will change
the one you are, the avatar
of all the things that you can do, if they are in your range.
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JERUSALEM AFTER CONSTANTINE

When after Constantine the Christians spurned
the Temple site where Roman vandals burned
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Before guys notice clothes and legs and décolleté
they pay attention to a woman's lips,
and they're painted they will try to find a way
to check their taste before she even strips.
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IT'S NECESSARY TO TALK ABOUT THE TREES


It's necessary to talk about the trees
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We laugh at gilded butterflies,
and know we shouldn’t gild a lily,
but who can ever turn their eyes
away from either? Willy-nilly,
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First wars resemble
a girl of great beauty,
we trifle, don’t tremble,
expecting great booty.
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Dotted everywhere they’d look,
men saw ironic points of light,
and spoke the words: “Let there be night! ”
which you won’t find inside the book
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Ctrl+Alt+Del
is an operation
that does not work well
to delet the nation,
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Spendthrifts tend to love tightwads,
and sadists all love masochists;
we all are drawn to foreign gods,
even if we’re atheists.
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