gershon hepner Poems

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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SENDING PROSTITUTES TO SLEEP


Private rites of magic can
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Pretension, balancing banality with self-
effacement leads to phoniness,
and although Holden Caulfield is not on the shelf,
his author lives in loneliness,
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Slight slowing of the world’s rotation
requires, top chronologists have reckoned,
slight horological inflation
of New Year, to which they will add a second.
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While Allen Ginsberg told us “Howl! ”
I do prefer Clint Eastwood’s growl,
while cherishing his Gran Torino,
spaghetti westernized the fino
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Latent humidity never is visible
till it’s attached to a particle;
latent stupidity isn’t derisible
till it’s debunked in an article.
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“It’ll be a great relief, ”
said Graham Greene, “not writing
about God.” Belief
he found quite unexciting,
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Graham Greene said Sierra Leone
was comparable to Balham going gay.
Did he mean like lilies Monet
might once perhaps have painted? Anyway,
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Without sinning, having sex,
said Luis Buñuel,
is just like eating saltless eggs.
It’s very hard to tell
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Post-traumatic stress disordered marriages
may fall apart for many reasons but
can rarely be repaired by baby carriages.
Once revolutionary roads seem shut,
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