gershon hepner Poems

Maggie tells her father Adam Verver
that they will lose their symmetry when she
moves to her husband, who does not deserve her
because he is in love with Charlotte. We
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Tearfulness, petulance, self-pity,
draw undesirable attention to yourself,
you’ll end up like your poem on a shameful shelf
if you show these feelings in a ditty
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In the city girls are having sex
with each other. Have they put a hex
on the men? If not, why don’t they pity
the men with whom they won’t sleep in the city?
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Because the lady is a cult,
she shot me like a catapult
when I explained I could no longer
worship at her shrine. I wrong her
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Boxed in by words, I have been scarred,
and by them marked like branded cattle
when adversaries with me have sparred
and won a ding-dong verbal battle.
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Saudi Arabia has a popular psychosis:
Some people think they’re covered up with sand;
scientific name of this psychosis, turabosis,
is hardly known at all outside that land.
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Eyes, accusing, may demand
attention to their piercing gaze,
more difficult to understand
than visual signals that amaze,
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WHY DO WE HATE THE SUPER-RICH?


Why do we hate the super-rich?
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Saturated dreams
hang in the air,
while two faithful teams
compete in prayer.
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In Katharine’s bathroom Warren Buffet failed
to notice the Picasso, getting wet,
yet saw, and surreptitiously availed
himself, of her shampoo, his profit net.
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