Nothing In The World Is Harder Poem by gershon hepner

Nothing in the world is harder than
a long succession of fair days. A man
may say this imitating Goethe, but
a single night with an obliging slut
will make things hard for him in pleasant ways,
and his success the moment that she plays
his organ with her tongue and lips or gums
will give him a soft landing once he comes.

Inspired by Goethe’s lines cited by Leo Abse, former Labor MP for Pontypool who died on August 21,2008, in his book Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love (New York: Robson,2002) ,189:

Alles in der Welt lässt sich ertragen,
Nur nicht eine Reihe von schönen Tagen.

(Nothing in life is harder to bear than a succession of fair days.)

9/2/08