gershon hepner Poems

Although he tried, he couldn’t make the leap
of unfaith, since it gave him less relief
when wading in its waters, hardly deep,
he found, as those he swam in with belief.
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Some believe that they’ve been put in charge
of all the shows that God’s supposed to run.
Leonard Cohen doesn’t, but a large
proportion of us think we are the one
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WHEN ROADS IN FORKS DIVERGE


When two roads in forks diverge
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Silence of the lambs will be
required if the earth is not
to die of overheating. We
are causing it to be too hot
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White women flip and flop their hair,
embarrassing black ones whose hair is curly,
while white men in the showers stare
at black men they consider to be surly.
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Men die each day for lack
of poetry, a bard
declared, though for a hack
life may be far less hard
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Midnight,31st December,
millennium night, sweet Linda said:
“Two thousand ways now I remember
Mrs. Pavey, who is dead.”
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Girls who pay their bills by stripping
deserve, say puritans, a whipping,
by which I mean the males who’re voyeurs
but claim say their don’t enjoy it––liars,
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Midnight,31st December,
millennium night, sweet Linda said:
“Two thousand ways now I remember
Mrs. Pavey, who is dead.”
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I love strange meanings, xenophilic
to the unfamiliar trope,
cutting cords that tie, umbilic,
meanings to a Czar or Pope
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