gershon hepner Poems

Chagall liked chairs and tables overturned,
but not the right way up. I think that old
ideas should similarly all be spurned,
because they lead to paths that are potholed.
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When my girl sits in the bleachers
catching carefully my balls,
she becomes the best of teachers
in the sweet pedantic halls
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'The deed is done! '
Elektra ends.
It’s kinda fun
the way it bends
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Please give three loud cheers for Ebonics,
and pass on sour grapes, Hebonics;
Ebonics is the mamme loshen
of shvartses who say they’re from Goshen.
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Marie-Antoinette had a lot more class
than the fraudsters of greed who beset us
avant le déluge, when the flood came, alas,
and made all rich creditors debtors.
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The difference between making and inventing
is great as that between a model and the art
that she inspires. God can’t do repenting,
but artists can correct His faults, and play a part
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The difference between making and inventing;
as great as that between a model and the art
that she inspires. God can’t do repenting,
but artists can correct His faults, and play a part
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When posing for Maillol she looked quite obese,
since Aristide thought fat is fine,
but having been drawn by his good friend Matisse,
she left him reduced to a line.
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Of great inventions none are better,
allegedly, than bread that's sliced,
except for drinks that, since they’re wetter,
make you inventive whether iced
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Bake each day like bread, as fresh
as loaves you put into the oven,
but make sure you don’t toast the flesh,
by adding spirit when you daven.
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