Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

I see a bank palace
lit up like a planet of excesses,
the glory of the powerful.
I also see a landscape
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Food in Oslo

Before pizza ruined Scandinavian cuisine it was wholesome,
nourishing and tasted good. Ok, so it was plain and it didn´t
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Glancing out of the window I see the potted plant
on the sill and the house on the other side of
the road… the light is fading and the plant looks as
sad as a whitewashed wall in rain… its whiteness
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The illegitimate Child
Once when juices were flowing like a river
Through my veins promising nothing but disgrace,
I masturbated behind a tree and hit it.
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Once I was in Iran the Shah ruled and his informers were everywhere.
Then came the revolution, much blood, some of it innocent, into
the streets. USA had kept the Shah in power and crushed democratic
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The Privatization of Terror

In Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq bombs explodes,
drones fall killing the innocent. People who live
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Bullfighting

Early morning on the flatland between Portugal and Seville a cockerel crews,
its hoarse wakeup call carries for miles. Vaqueros are already on the grassland
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The Kimono

I was joining a ship in another town; mother followed me the railway station,
which was not far as we lived nearby? From the train I looked down at her and
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The Blue Boat

When winter rain falls
The lake in the vale fills up
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The freedom of the media


Freedom of speech and freedom of information
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