gershon hepner Poems

“Who is that weasel giving my son David a hard time? ”
a mother asked when watching him appear before the judge.
It’s what my wife will say to you if you don’t like my rhyme.
You are not Felix Frankfurter, and she will bear a grudge
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In novels most narrators are reliable,
the version of their stories undeniable.
In life, however, stories we relate may vary
from the facts considerably, for truth is scary.
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Tom Friedman says that we need poetry, not prose,
to get this country into better shape.
Although we surely know a rose would be a rose
if called by any other name, a grape
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Women on the edge of being just
a little overweight are more enticing
than those with narrow hips and flattened bust
who on the runways are more like the sugared icing
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People are not absolute beginners
once they have come to realize
that absolution does not come to sinners
till love has opened all four eyes.
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Some people say that hokey-pokey
refers to Catholics’ loss of focus
when priests do things that seem most hokey
in the mass’s hocus-pocus,
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Unless french fries are very crispy
they should be banished as fast food
and trashed or tossed just like a Frisbee,
not chewed before they are eschewed.
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Some sopranos are like high-explosive shells
and others are like Queens of Night on acid,
a few of them have voices like cracked bells,
but you will rarely hear one who is placid.
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Words a Polish girl was talking
in a train confused the poet Phil,
causing him to give up stalking.
He thought there was no chance that she could thrill
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The greatest stimulant of life is hope,
more powerful than joyat's realized;
though you may hang yourself with this long rope,
when suffocating, do not be surpris\ed.
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