Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Menage et Trois

On the farm, I was sent to when my mother was at home for tuberculosis,
I was quite happy, the people on the farm consisted of a middle-aged couple
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The killing of a poet
There are many sorts of poets those who
extoll the sitting regime tell of order it has brought
their words are recited they win prizes but few, today remembers their names
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this person you have never seen before.
If you saw Obama walking down the same street, you would
see him as a slightly balding man of colour, you certainly
would not call him a unless you are bigoted racist.
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My dying friend

Today I met a friend
at the local café.
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My dying friend

Today I met a friend
at the local café.
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Today I met a friend
at the local café.
He had lost wight
his days were numbered.
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The canasta

We played canasta, club 7 was missing lie on the floor,
but the rules where you couldn't pick it up invented by lawmakers
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The canasta

We played canasta, club 7 was missing lie on the floor,
but the rules where you couldn't pick it up invented by lawmakers
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The writing games

If you want to know about me, there will be no diary
you will find my struggle in my writing, you see I`m two persons in one body
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Shakespeare& C0

6-7 years ago, I was in Paris for a wedding and reading poetry,
the reading was met with protests by the public who protested again
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