Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Job Seekers
After being unemployed for a long time I got
a job as a cook in a cafe where people came
for the beer, but the local law demanded
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The undying soul

There was a time
I thought soul and body
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A Poet Road
Now that it is hot and the sun has turned from
a warm friend to a raging enemy, what did I say
to make it so burning hot?
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Meeting a Friend
I met my old friend Joao at the pharmacist today
a place we old ones go to buy medicine and to
meet friends still alive, it occurred to me the pharmacy
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Most of us know more now than we did before when news
was simpler such as the Soviet Union bad- and Mao in China
swam across the river I have just been reading about Sinai
a place I thought consisted of sand, goats and Bedouins on
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Great American Literature

Our book shelf groaned under the weight
of American Literature and my mother was
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A life Time
How long is a lifetime it cannot be measured in years
my brother died young yet left behind five children
and I was born a weakling – he will never grow old
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The Plot
It was after eight o`clock in the evening before it got cool
enough to go for a little drive my interest the savannah
like grass made golden by the falling sun, it was then I saw
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Surplus to requirement
My wife was her aunt a lovely woman of forty-four,
then she divorced her husband a man with a title,
a baron, because she felt bored by him – he was
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Black, Shiny Shoes.
The EU dictatorship has crushed Hellas Germany and the banks won-
The French to their helped the Greeks writing a new tax system and
for once the tycoons have to pay tax as well and for the Hellenic
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