Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Wedding in Paris

Coming out of the church after the wedding there were
smiles and cameras clicked, from the steps I could look
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Two Sadorma poems

Path unknown
Yet walked before
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A boy baby was born this morn, no not in Bethlehem
or the east end, but in the heart of a land that loves
royals. So what the big deal babies are born; mothers
give birth to them every day, but this is different
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I see a bank palace
lit up like a planet of excesses,
the glory of the powerful.
I also see a landscape
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Food in Oslo

Before pizza ruined Scandinavian cuisine it was wholesome,
nourishing and tasted good. Ok, so it was plain and it didn´t
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Glancing out of the window I see the potted plant
on the sill and the house on the other side of
the road… the light is fading and the plant looks as
sad as a whitewashed wall in rain… its whiteness
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The illegitimate Child
Once when juices were flowing like a river
Through my veins promising nothing but disgrace,
I masturbated behind a tree and hit it.
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The Privatization of Terror

In Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq bombs explodes,
drones fall killing the innocent. People who live
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Once I was in Iran the Shah ruled and his informers were everywhere.
Then came the revolution, much blood, some of it innocent, into
the streets. USA had kept the Shah in power and crushed democratic
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Child Poverty

“I wish I wave will come take me
out to the sea, and I wish I were
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