gershon hepner Poems

Trailing snail-tracks of the jism
appearing through the private prism
of her lover’s contact, lenses
unobstructed by her menses,
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‘I bring you peace with honor, ’ boasted Neville;
‘now go home and get a quiet sleep.’
Make sure, negotiating with the devil,
to have some sleep before you wake and weep,
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Politics: disparity
between truth and emphatic
observance of fanatic
vox populi vulgarity.
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Interplay between the canvas and the pigment
is greater than the one between the viewer and
the painting when he can’t abstract the figment
of imagination hard to understand
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Some experts wish that countries eating grain
would choose potatoes as their staple diet.
Like Antoinette Marie these men complain
of food some natives eat. You shouldn’t buy it,
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On Jewish writers he has put,
with witches’ help, a hex,
and is himself no pussyfoot
when he discusses sex.
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Caught in an expressive cul-de-sac,
all imagery goes down the tube
iconoclastically, with lack
of space that curves when artists cube,
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Although thought must be clarified,
as Wittgenstein declared,
if logic appears rarified
the process is impaired.
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Capacity to disappoint
is one that’s very much enjoyed
by those determine to pinpoint
our failures with their Schadenfreude.
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Some Catholics declare they’re lapsed
when they have found their faith’s collapsed,
while Jews start breaking Moses’ laws
once they have put their faith on pause.
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