Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

World’s Biggest Rat.

A moonlit evening, behind a supermarket in Denmark, a guard
spotted a very big rat and he got his dog to kill it. The biggest
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Sleeping Mouse

In front of me, on the track that leads into the bushes, a tiny field mouse.
Picked it up and put it in the palm of my hand. The mouse was brown and
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Morning Light.

In the morning breeze petals fall off the rhododendron bush. The terrace is
a magic carpet and on the wall sunlight and shadows enact an ancient play.
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Monuments

They have gone now not a trace left but hazy memories.
Leaves are getting yellow there is no denying fall is here.
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The Unremembered


From the deepness of unconsciousness floats up pieces of memories,
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The Stream of Consciousness.

A laughing clown filled the heavenly screen, a grin full of malice.
Behind him bearded men were eating children, wine and blood
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Everyday life and Chocolate.

A sweet shop in the middle of nowhere, I had bought a box of chocolate,
but had no money, the owner took my sack of hay given to me by a farmer
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The Final.
Shivering I got up from my ice sheet bed and walked into night streets.
Pot holed roads and uneven pavements, a systematic ruin to save tax
payers money which is easy in a poor, powerless neigbhourhood.
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The Biggest Flood

Pakistan, the biggest flood ever recorded the newscaster tells me,
has he forgotten about the biblical flood and Noah?
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The Cat House

Morning in Aruba, the cock has crowed three times and
men get out of beds that have been slept in by hundreds
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