gershon hepner Poems

IT'S NECESSARY TO TALK ABOUT THE TREES


It's necessary to talk about the trees
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Funerals and weddings are about
the family you’re embarrassed to belong to;
as soon as arrive you’re filled with doubt,
and wish to leave, but know it would be wrong to.
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Three matriarchs appeared quite sterile,
Sarah and Rebekkah and
young Rachel who, though fair, was feral
when Jacob worked to seek her hand.
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A taste as old as cold, cold water,
don’t put them in long drinks, but shorter,
martinis or a Bloody Mary.
They clear the head and make it airy,
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Ctrl+Alt+Del
is an operation
that does not work well
to delet the nation,
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Spendthrifts tend to love tightwads,
and sadists all love masochists;
we all are drawn to foreign gods,
even if we’re atheists.
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Cortés identified with Quetzalcóatl,
We think we know the story, but don’t know it all.
In writing stories of the people whom we vanquish,
how can we understand king Montezuma’s anguish?
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Rembrandt, Raphael, Van Gogh
are most collectors' boon
but do not cause my heart to glow
like water on the moon.
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Lurking in the ampersand
lies the symbol of combining
one and one, which hand in hand
makes two by means of intertwinin.
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Dotted everywhere they’d look,
men saw ironic points of light,
and spoke the words: “Let there be night! ”
which you won’t find inside the book
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