jan hansen

Humanity
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the oppression


The town's sewer pipe ends in the middle of a fjord
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endless story

I have tried to tell a story of a rat that fell from the ceiling
It landed among drinkers in a café I ran,
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the actor
When very young I wanted to be an actor, my uncle Lars had been
an actor, I remember seeing him playing a detective and shouted,
 this is my uncle, mother took me outside so the play could resume.
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My Way


When I hear the song, "My Way." I think of the narrow road I used
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Verse person

The modest poet is the one who writes poems
the excerpts call crap; think of the lady poet who
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Memory of Muriel


When the big wave crashed ashore on the rocky side of the bay
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Holiday Paradise

is burning Rhodes is surrounded by invading fires and blue sea
no modern weaponry can stop this brutal onslaught.
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a life


When a spawn meets an egg, it is totally by chance the egg, and the spawn has no say in
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The toxic masculinity


The big gorilla, a silverback, found in the woods a tiny creature
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Jamboree

Young catholic people from far-flung places are arriving
in Lisbon, plain young boys and girls looking sober smiling
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The neighborhood
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a liter of wine

Some time ago, before Putin came to power and made Russia
into a modern state, many Russians came to Portugal, tried to find work
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Morning song

it is six in the morning
I get down and move the car from
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The Widow

Some time, ago a man went climbing an icy mountain on his own, why? I don't what was on his mind maybe he was the type of a man who had no friends because he was eristic and
fed up with his wife, wanted to be alone.
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The pontiff and I

Finally, the pope left, I saw him leave in a helicopter, dressed
in fetching white, his bishops wore black dresses with red stripes like the Norwegian Gestapo wore during the war.
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A simple sonnet

The tramp, who sits on a low ledge, near the entrance of the
modest supermarket that sells basic food fruit and vegetable
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The value of books


Late afternoon, the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking
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The Dreamless

Now that he had freed himself of the past looking forward
to think thoughts not hampered by dreams of childhood and
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Planet Norway calling


We see a TV program from Norway, a smallish nation bent on becoming green, building windmills on top of mountains and in the sea, filling the landscape with rotating blades that have an annoying sound and do not make the famous landscape more prettier.
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