Deconstructing The Redactor Poem by gershon hepner

With no urge to dig for glories
in the deep dirt laid by time
he dug up the ancient stories,
telling them in prose and rhyme,
and in papers whose hard kernels
deconstructed their redactor,
rephrasing them in bible journals,
while he waited like an actor
for the critical approval
authors of the Hebrew bible
don’t receive since the removal
of doctrinal laws of libel
that protected them from critics,
before enlightenment took over,
and the worldview of Semitics
had no place left for Jehovah.

Inspired by two lines of Pushkin from Eugene Onegin quoted in Haruki Murakami’s “Sputnik Sweetheart”:

He had no itch to dig for glories
Deep in the dirt that time has laid.

11/28/02