Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The King and Me.
The king of Norway, doesn´t feel well today
his crown is heavy and since he went bald
the diamond crusted crown leaves marks on
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Weekends


In the afternoon sun
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Misfit
The four of them wore business mine from a second-hand shop
I joined them,
we went to a high-class restaurant, it was full, but there were side rooms
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The life of fishes

I bought a cod fish
The fish-monger wrapped it in
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Disembowelled
Mackerel sky blue and light blue strips
perhaps it was the zebra of the sea swimming away in haste
I was gutting one
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Visitors

I was walking around with my camera
but its eye didn`t find anything of interest
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The action is downtown going quickly there
are girls dancing on a pool symbolism not needed
this constant friction any pubic hair left
it doesn`t matter it is in garish colours and
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Retaliation

The mate went ashore an afternoon,
For the purpose to go to the bar
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The Oppressed
Time is churning us in a mass of confusion
But something is forever the need to side with the downtrodden.
Two of my uncles, ordinary working class lad,
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Underneath the lamplight

There was a time I danced under street lamps
The music was in my head and pole dancing
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