Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The grocery/ wineshop

Once when he lived in Faro (Portugal) and walking about
he came across a grocer shop that was new in 1950.
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Winner takes all

He sat on the sofa feeling disgruntled, watching TV
about a young woman who read a poem about hill climbing.
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Morning sun


Sat on the terrace
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Poetry be damned

The grey coloured straightjacket of poetry
I have, like, Houdini freed me of these shackles
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The Killing of Floyd

So, the policeman who Killed Floyd by pressing his
knee on his neck, the sentence was murder, but was it?
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The lost class

I was watching a program called "Vera" when I recalling
I once I lived in the northwest of England.
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Racism

Where are the war graves of the 350 thousand soldiers?
Who fought and died for our wars?
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Caravaggio


A painting of Caravaggio has been hanging on a wall
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The acting lark
Since I was not going to be a George Ramsay of cooking
I decided to become an actor, paid my money and went
to the relevant studio, which situated in an old building
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Counsellor

For a short time in Liverpool, I had a job driving
to a house (always working-class) where the man of the house
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