gershon hepner Poems

LA MELINCHE

Proud Cortes loved her. La Melinche,
crossed over to his camp,
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KATE'S SEE-THROUGH DRESS

They say Prince William first saw Kate
in a fashion show, when wearing
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PLAYING MUSIC IS LIKE MAKING LOVE

Many people who insist that they enjoy
music known as classical merely say
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Although you cannot change the wind's direction,
you can adjust the sails, and if you know
precisely how to make the right correction,
you may arrive where winds want you to go.
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LIARS' CLUB

Ananias was a liar,
like Joe McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, Richard Nixon and,
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Does Joshua Bell, the violinist, have any sins he
regrets? To answer this strange riddle
ask his late father Alan who once worked for Kinsey
before young Joshua learned to fiddle.
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Digesting cholent beans,
schloffing Yidden tend to snore
and then disgustingly exhale.
Hardly ever do they fail
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HE DO POLITE IN DIFFERENT VOICES


He do polite in different voices,
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Small and soundless, the baton
is the engine of the sound
which have to focus on
when they become performance bound.
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Writing Cheetah’s story as a chimp
enabled Moehringer to tell his story
from the primate point of view. We crimp
our style reporting one another’s glory
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