Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The Windy city
Chicago a city by the Lake Erin
A blanket of white and the wind
Whistles between sky -scrapers
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Havana
In the fifties, Havana was a gigantic whorehouse For the Americans,
and run by the Mafia and assorted businessmen, but down from
the mountain came to Fidel Castro and created a humane society.
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Havana
In the fifties, Havana was a gigantic whorehouse For the Americans,
and run by the Mafia and assorted businessmen, but down from
the mountain came to Fidel Castro and created a humane society.
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A stroll on a forgotten track

Finally, after 12 years I walked the track where
my dog and I so often trod she was hunting rabbits
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Old Friendship rusts not
12 years why this number and not 13 years
I don`t know perhaps I believe in good and less
God digits numerals but nevertheless
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The Big Sleep
The beginning of suicide begins with sense of
Life tiredness, there is a French word for it
"deja vue" a sense that it have happened before
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Western Movies
At the Chinese supermarket, they were selling cowboy revolvers
with holster very cheap they looked, and I tried one, but it was too light,
I have never held a revolver but thought they must have some weight
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Tohoku
When the tsunami struck in Japan five years
it hit and killed so many that nature had no time
to erase the dead completely
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Tohoku
When the tsunami struck in Japan five years
it hit and killed so many that nature had no time
to erase the dead completely
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Terra Dal Fuego (sonnet)
Ushuaia the southernmost town in Argentine when I dreamt
of going there, we got around about on sturdy horses
herding sheep with Portuguese immigrants, islands protect
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