Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

A Beggar

This irritating person, one leg shorter
than the other, unwashed and begging.
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Beautiful horses
But it is the modest mule
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Sayings
In a country of
Bald people
The wig maker is
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A Belly Full

Christmas Eve, festive shop windows
cast glee on sleet, huddled in a doorway
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The ship -cook was tired it had been a long day, the ship was old
full of cockroaches, one had found its way in his bread dough and
when the captain cut a slice of bread it was there, a brown raisin;
the old man had been very angry. The cook’s trouble was roaches
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Senryu
The unwritten
Is a dream not yet awake
A soundless slumber
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The great change
I have a mask made of plestic glass covers the whole
face to avoid touching my face, of the type dogs, were
not to scratch their ears.
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A Country for old Men

I have been into town bought a paper and drank a beer,
in the café where the old men sit in the afternoon shade.
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I have seen the future
Water famine and revolutions
Wars over water,
No not the kind of balloons
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