Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

A moment to Remember

This night is too beautiful to behold, moon and silence. My heart aches.
Know I will wake up at dawn and regret that I can’t take it with me.
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Immortality

Every morning an old man, with a jute
sack slung over his bent back,
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Another morning
I have been trying to stave off old age
by avoiding old men in the park who ask me to guess
their age, empty gums looks like a burnt down
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When the Dance stops

So now the party in Singapore is over
pacts are signed, and the show of lies is over in the meantime,
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the loss

I saw her leave
on the 8 o´clock train.
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New driving license

Going to the doctor make me nervous
I was renewing my driving license and feared they would say
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a new day

early morning, silent morning
the building is still sleeping, the few cars
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the bank robber

I, like many others, are short of cash
the idea of robbing a bank at gunpoint is repellent
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A president's sad ending

Speaks into the empty office he hears an echo which
repeats his words, I´m the president.
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Minimum wage

The olive trees in the landscape
near the village,
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