gershon hepner Poems

You need a touch of disarray
to prove your spontaneity.
Being carried far away
by a mere velleity
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Five planets Tycho Brahe knew
revolve around the sun, but thought
it turns around the earth. His view
was flawed, Procrustean. He fought
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Life is to enjoy, take care,
for this may be your final hour;
feast the heart before despair
consumes what you do not devour.
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The victories that seem to please the gods
have problems when they seem to come to odds
with moral standards of a higher level
than that espoused by gods who give the devil
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Early morning when I’m feeling devilly,

I rise before cockcrow makes reveille,
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Like Wittgenstein, I think that life is wonderful,
and even though I cannot help but blunder,
I love it for the witty way its ridicule
results in mental wanderlust and wonder.
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Far better fables anodyne
than stories that are scary,
Don Giovanni drinking wine
with no Commendatore,
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There is no law of levity,
but once it’s codified
with wit, the soul of brevity,
I hope I’m notified,
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When a horny Californian mistress calls
her Unalaskan lover, asking for a date,
the wife should not call the police, but grab his balls
before he goes back to the Lower Forty-Eight.
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Rabban Gamliel saw a ship that was wrecked
and mourned for Aqiba who’d drowned,
he’s mistakenly thought, feeling very abject,
till he landed and—miracle! —found
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