gershon hepner Poems

If you cannot sing a song
you may find that you can extract
the meaning if you try to act
the music to which words belong
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Motherhood that lasts beyond the cradle and the breast:
maternity.
Trading recklessly in hedge funds, hoping for the best:
modernity.
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The laws of kings can’t be amended.

This was the rule in Persia when
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It isn’t banks that fail in Yonkers
that drive me nowadays quite bonkers;
I live too far away from there
about these banks to really care.
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We need to draw a moral line,
and give up looking for another
hopefully more caring mother
and father, as did Coraline.
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Good food and wine produce a synergy
ideal especially for dinner ge-
niality, for I have got a hunch
the synergy is not ideal for lunch,
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Eternity bores Sylvia Plath: she never
wants to get there. All the gods know, she
declares, is destinations. Very clever,
but hearing about being bored bores me,
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Near the human race are layers
of nonsense, Thornton Wilder said.
Worst of all are the naysayers
reminding us that God is dead
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For the writer, as for God,
the process of creation can’t
be drawn precisely, far too odd
to make clear to a confidant,
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La femme, sings Offenbach, dont le coeur rêve,
which means a woman with a dreaming heart,
is disinclined to give this heart forever,
but always will––as soon as her eyes dart
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