Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The apartment


No, I don`t miss my old home the one I rebuilt
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The apartment


No, I don`t miss my old home the one I rebuilt
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Dear Delilah

My, my dear Delilah I was drunk and fell on the floor
there I saw your lover hiding under the couch.
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Headlines
He was going to write his masterpiece
"The road to London" but the coach from
The airport had a blowout.
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A message

An angel sat on the window ledge
Wanted to come in which was understandable
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While waiting

While I was waiting for the poem, I was going to write
to show up but I can`t find the right words
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Everlasting war
The new normal in the twentieth century is war
it has continued without a break a perpetual machine
of mass killing, someone somewhere must see
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The Seeker

"Go silent go Deep" a title of a film he saw of Curd Jürgen
an actor who got manly roles and looked good in Nazi uniform,
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Handwriting

I was sent a book used when I went to catering
college 60 years ago, I had signed it on a page inside.
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Rolf, the talking machine

There are moments in life when you meet someone
you take an instant dislike to who endlessly talk about
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