Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Cars and donkey carts, dust and noise, heat and mob
of humanity in a narrow street...Shoving and pushing
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Do we love dogs because we can dominate them?
They do as they are told (after some struggle)
and love us unconditionally because they know it
is their only chance of survival; and after a while
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Rednecks
Long time ago when a man called Goldwater was
running for president, I was walking along a road
just outside Mobile, Alabama. What I was doing
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Burden of a Hasty Marriage.
He saw her at the cafe she a cup of cacao and eating a cream cake,
he had a sandwich with cheese and ham. She looked up and smiled,
he knew she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
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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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Bullfighting

Early morning on the flatland between Portugal and Seville a cockerel crews,
its hoarse wakeup call carries for miles. Vaqueros are already on the grassland
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The Kimono

I was joining a ship in another town; mother followed me the railway station,
which was not far as we lived nearby? From the train I looked down at her and
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The Blue Boat

When winter rain falls
The lake in the vale fills up
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I remember Laika

The warm sun and wind keep winter at bay
but it is time to say goodbye to Laika, the dog
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