Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Two athletic men tried to wrestle a paving stone from each
other, I tried to take the stone away from them thought it may
be used as weapon, I was as inept, peace negotiator usually are.
They fought about a sweet, blind girl she had a pony in her flat,
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Funeral.
A young man died in his sleep he was 49 years old, with my aged eyes
he was boy too young to die. I don't know the medical reason for his
early demise, think it has to do with burst blood vessel in the brain.
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Middle Class Retirees. (Algarve)

When she gets up her husband has gone to the golf course, she drinks
a cup of weak tea and has a toast without butter. Then the grooming
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A Mixed Memory

When mother made gateau for someone’s birthdays
I beat the cream using a steel whisker. Boring work
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Drifting thoughts.
Interesting article I read,
in a few years robots and the chip
can take over most manual work
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A Famous TV Station

She has the bland face of a Fox newscaster, not a hair
out of place; yes, and shapely legs too. Faithfully she
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Every voyage
I have attempted
Is interior
What I saw I didn't see clearly
But a dream of self discovery
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Tropical night, starlit, if I recall rightly; there was
sliver of a golden moon also. We drank beer too,
the sea is an enormous waste bin, plop, plop.
Someone brought guitar, nights like this ought to
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Dolls of Religion
Virgin Mary was a Barbie doll, the only one that has given birth
to a Barbie doll baby. Two thousand years this went unseen till
she appeared in toy shops, together with a cute Barbie doll man
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Another day has gone and I'm old, like the day
To last long as possible, night holds no mystery.
The land needs rain, but clouds have feet of clay.
The almond tree has shed its flowers masterly
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