Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

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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A character trait

She was divorced with one child a daughter
had met a man she liked going out for the first meal
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Fishing boat

A man bought an old fishing vessel
it had a steering house, but the door was rotten
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My lie is bigger than yours.

So it is Sunday early afternoon light rain
and I`m not a weather forecaster, and no one pays me
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What`s going on

Watching TV flicking from channel to channel is surreal,
one moment a casket is lowered into
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Limelight

Once I had to go on stage
reading my poetry, I was a nervous wreck
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The war and food

During the war years in Norway 1940 to 1945
there was little food, but the coast was teeming
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