Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Extolling the great

Protest poetry is a waste of time
He is a victim of the lion
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The Twilight Zone
In the nearest town and close to all amenities
such as hospitals and funeral parlours my wife
and went to look at an elderly people's hotel
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Big Rabbit Sonnet
Giant rabbits are not cute as you think when they
are in a group then they sneer at us and make funny
noises aping human speech, they live in the forest
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Big Rabbit Sonnet
Giant rabbits are not cute as you think when they
are in a group then they sneer at us and make funny
noises aping human speech, they live in the forest
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Our Religious Inheritance

Our cultural Christianity has become Meaningless
Don`t think about it
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Summer Night
Sven, my best friend, had a motor boat, we`re young
and invited two girls with us it was a summer night we
had a cold beer, Sven who looked like an actor got
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Drowning
A fledgling flew,
alas, wings to small and weak
it landed in a puddle
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Drowning
A fledgling flew,
alas, wings to small and weak
it landed in a puddle
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Of Mice and Men
The mice in Belgium do not eat fine chocolate
They scoff at imported Swiss cheese
And have only contempt for a left- over bacon burgers,
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Glasgow
The music stopped abruptly dancers left the floor
became paintings on the wall in the closed down dance-hall
in Glasgow`s Sauciehal street the old entertainment centre.
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