gershon hepner Poems

Cross and chimney both
have carried the remains of Jews;
their link is that they both accuse
the people who were loth
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After romance of the damned
in a distant archipelago
the veteran, once he’d been Vietnamed,
discovered war won’t let a fellah go.
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The reason Hebrews are unique,
says Derrida, is that they slant
the truth, so it becomes oblique,
an explanation that, I grant,
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Embracing ambiguity
that we through dissonance have filtered
we question with acuity
why anyone should be bewildered.
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Searching for coherence and for sense,
a man requires solitude and deprivation
of stimuli that cause false confidence,
and lead to a pursuit of approbation.
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The photo of Simone has been touched up,
to lose some kilos, rolls of fat and years,
as if Jean-Paul were able still to cup
a hand around them. Existential fear
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“Eureka! ” moments sometimes may result
from outright theft, with Graham Bell the worst
example. For he traveled to consult
the patent of Elisha Gray, the first
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Injecting new thinking into the old
your logic can be start-of-art,
and though what you’re telling has often been told,
rethinking can help it impart
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Surfaces on which you lean,
or sometimes make a choice to push against,
once you have figured they mean
and fully their significance have sensed
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This morning I woke up again, and thank
the Lord for that, but wonder: does He sleep,
and stay in bed for hours, pulling rank,
forgetful shlufing shepherd of his sheep.
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