gershon hepner Poems

Defiled by darkness and by age,
remembering the light of distant youth,
he, in the twilight, will not rage
that he has failed to find the source of truth,
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Some Rings are Freudian, some are sung
inspired by the work of Jung;
some are Christian and their sparks
have been attributed to Marx.
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Robert Rauschenberg would say
he could remember what he made
'like yesterday, ' but was dismayed
because what he did yesterday
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Don't feel nostalgia for hypotenuses,
or when I see a tangent get a hard-on,
but when I fart I’m square and make excuses
and, radiating, say: “I beg your pardon.”
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A far more lethal weapon than mere raging
is insight. Spare us from its ravages,
because with it we learn while we are aging
that, ape-descended, we are merely savages.
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We need witches more than seers,
and wizards more than wise men,
as we are aging, in arrears,
unable to reject the icemen
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JAZZ VIOLIN


There’s Louis Armstrong and the Duke
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Abolishing a rabbi who’s the chief
is surely hutzpah that’s beyond belief,
unless the rabbi is so hutzpadik
that such views come not from a heretic,
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My favorite photo, for today
at least, is one in which the nose
of Zachary, my son, the groom, looks fey,
because his nose is luminose.
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Women tend to be more proud
than men, who are lot more lusty;
the things both sexes aren’t allowed
both do. My memory is rusty
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