Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Providence
When
They tore down
The statue
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Cold Feet

My legs are cold turning into lumps of ice
If I get up, they may break off like icicle on roofs
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The News Today
Louvre in Paris has closed its door the staffs stand
on the steps and sing the national anthem they have
no lifeboats and can`t stop Louvre being filled with
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Clouds on Dreams
To believe what we see is often a fallacy on a video
a rat attacked a cat; the moggy scared ran away but was it so
I think not video and pictures can be doctored so we are
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The Boxer
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Fatima

A lady rich, perfumed and dressed splendidly was driven
by her liveried chauffeur to Lisbon when she, at a certain
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Pot plants
I have no picked flowers in my home
If I see a beautiful flower by the wayside
I stop and admire it, perhaps touch it slightly.
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A flat in Town

Tomorrow most of the time there is one, but for some, the unlucky
who died the day before, and rest in a coffin in a cold church, the tomorrow came too late,
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We the stupid

Bin Laden was buried in
A watertight coffin
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The Initiation

It is not easy to be young at 16 I was a galley boy
on a tankship that even then 60 years ago was ancient
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