gershon hepner Poems

This tale describes how Israelites all grumbled
at God and Moses in the wilderness.
Although they all by biting snakes were humbled,
God cured them by a magical process
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When singers can’t depend on the security
of high notes they rely
on musicality and tone whose purity
all errors may belie.
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Erudition, rhetoric and mastery of trivia
can leave a person feeling dumb
compared with someone who has talents which, although they’re iffier,
provide him depths more hard to plumb.
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Row, row, row the boat,
gently down the stream
of consciousness, and take close note
of things of which you dream
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In Rotterdam, the dancers gen-
erate the watts that help to light
the bulbs. Electrically the men
and women grow like tulips-lite
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Infrastructure is what we
all take for granted something that
we think that we deserve for free
like fresh air or a feral cat.
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Sometimes sweet, transsexual, and
transvestite, Transylvanian rarely,
dark and gloomy, never bland,
covered gothically, not barely
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Is eternity a time that we
muck over all minutiae of life,
or could it be an opportunity
to cut through all of them, eternal knife
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Topless, Salome succeeds
in making John the Baptist headless
by going topless, shedding weeds
like melted sunburnt wings of Daedalus.
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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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