gershon hepner Poems

Sylph or siren,
legs have it,
Keats and Byron
both avid
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BUOYED BY HIS EXUBEANCE


Buoyed by his exuberance,
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“Who can live among such children, always spoiled? ”
asked Beethoven, when he had finished improvising.
It seemed that he upon the keyboard hydrofoiled,
yet he thought proof of admiration trivializing.
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DO FERTILITY GODDESSES HAVE SELL-BY DATES


Do fertility goddesses have sell-by dates,
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Copulation calls in females
who’re primates like baboons or chimps
make having sex like many e-mails
human females write to pimps
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Driving in the moonlight, Cyd and Fred
embrace to strains of “Dancing in the Dark; ”
best way to get a girl into your bed
is drive her languorously through Central Park,
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PESKY PRIAPUS


When pesky Priapus
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A woman whose life had been glorious
complained that her husband uxorious
refused to provide
other lovers beside
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After thought comes thought, unless
you're practical and like
to do the things you think, and stress
your body, not your psych.
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When you say you love me I
will copy you, dittographer
who knows he cannot beautify
the words of his biographer,
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