Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The rancorous people

There is a country we are not allowed to mention
lest we are banned and silenced if telling the truth.
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The son I lost


My sister had three sons she was not in good health
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Palestinian Chaos
The dream interrupted
By the people of darkness.
Ramallah
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Critical thinking

We are all tame liberals now we speak the same language
we believe in niceness and the brotherhood of man our way.
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The Dolphin
He sat on the terrace thinking of his four children
their mother was a dolphin who lived in a pool behind the houses.
She begged me to set her free, I did and saw her swim away
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The execution

The basement, where cars are parked
in neat little boxes in a row, is cold and creepy.
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Morning sight

A man and his dog
Are coming out of a house
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Equus ferrous

There is a storm blowing when blue waves crash ashore
white horses with flying mane gallop up, blocking the road.
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The Tasmanian tiger

The last one died in captivity in 1936
and that was a sad moment for humanity,
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Democracy for everyone

The democratic party is in power now
and Trump, for all his flaws, didn´t want a war in the middle east
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