Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

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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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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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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The Privatization of Terror

In Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq bombs explodes,
drones fall killing the innocent. People who live
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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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Worth a Fight.
It is no longer about right or wrongs it
is about taking a stand..... Against those whose forefathers
came to this country to escape poverty and tyranny,
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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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I write Dionysus poetry
With a dash of Apollo,
This because darksome poetry
Can kill hope
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Lower class

When children we were poor, and that was ok,
we knew hunger,
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