gershon hepner Poems

Only by erotic love alone
can we survive awareness of
depravity. We set the highest tone
for sensuality in love
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My love, move still, still so,
and let me enter you
with no disturbing cue
to make your body show
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Coxcomb, charlatan and bore,
Plato paved immoral ways for Byron. He
transcended platitudes that bore,
transforming them with his immortal irony.
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ENFANT TERRIBLE

A Frenchman whose morals were feeble
declared: “I’m no enfant terrible.
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Not unloved or overweight, I’ve had my fun,
and only rarely shut out lovers like a wall,
and will continue writing poems, one by one
about whatever lovers I can still recall.
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The lust for knowing what should not be known
is like the lust for loving who should not
be loved. With knowledge no man lives alone,
but lust for love cn help him hit the the spot.
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If you are over thirty years of age,
tell your mum to leave the stage.
Time won't pass slowly with a quickie,
brought to life and wife with Rikki.
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A policy that’s based on cheer
can be a license for indifference,
from which it’s better that you veer
if you’re in favor of deliverance.
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Rashi's
gushy;
he doesn't make us feel a dead loss a lot,
like Tosafot.
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Words when said both front and backwards
enable people who don’t lack words
to interpret them like mammograms,
and keep abreast with anagrams.
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