gershon hepner Poems

Though both of my two hands are deft,
I do not want to use the left;
when I between your thighs tonight
slide one, I think I’ll use the right.
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Peter the Third by Catherine the Great
was strangled, though they claimed he died
of piles, while her son Paul the First had his pate
by an inkwell both shattered and drastically dyed.
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When Bernie Madoff meets Matt Lauer
which of them’s the first to glower?
Bernie, being not the banker
of Matt, who of Today is anchor,
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When a fly falls into their coffee, Italians will rage,
while Frenchmen will take out the fly, and drink the potage.
The Chinese will gobble the fly, and throw away
the coffee, while Russians have both, since they don’t have to pay.
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Museums sometimes find a silver lining
to poverty––the treasures in their vault
that they dig out, and save, gold miners mining
their heritage, thus staving off default.
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Smooth and amiable, opaque,
with facades like scrims, genteel,
my friends are ones you ought to take
unseriously, and for a meal
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God-soaked violence, according to Bill Moyers,
is coded among Jews genetically.
Such liberal pronouncements very much annoy us,
since they’re produced dysexegetically
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Erudition and despair,
thriving symbiotically,
synergistically, a pair
devoid of what, erotically,
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THE EARTH NEVER SHIFTS


The earth never shifts
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TIME THAT I’LL KEEP


The time that I’ll keep
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