gershon hepner Poems

Only those who know the steps can dance,
and only if you’ve learned them in your youth
can they bring back the memories of romance
that first confirmed for you the so-called truth
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We can tell more by implying
than by being quite explicit.
Though it always is illicit
to elude the truth lying,
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Sick in fortune from the surfeit
of own behavior, we
are crashing now, as we deserve,
most excellent in foppery,
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As sybaritic as a Turkish bath or shvitz,
the cosmopolitans pronounces their consonants and vowels,
but when they leave the ballroom of the Ritz
they sound like borborygmi of the bowels.
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The trouble with me is that I’m not shovel
ready, and don’t want to move
from my cottage mansion to a hovel
where I will be forced to prove
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What would the world be once bereft
of wet and wildness, ? Hopkins asked.
The answer is: it would be left
without the beauty that God tasked
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Infidelity is far more popular
that baseball, barbecues or ball-room dancing,
for changing partners when you're being copular
apparently can be far more entrancing
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Sad and empty, having finished
something long, I now report
I don’t think I’ll feel diminished
if I now write something short.
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Privacy can suffocate
but company can make me wince,
so when I want to celebrate
I try politely to dropp hints
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Alive enough to spawn and die
we are like salmon without gills,
and breathe our last beneath a sky
polluted by satanic mills.
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