Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Her birthday

We're having lunch in the Cascais centre
at a posh restaurant with a sea view.
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Remembered is the loss

I sit in the sumptuous living room with my wife
we have a bed the king would be proud of
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The boy in the drain

A boy of five years played in a field
noticed a hole in the ground worth exploring
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Dented western hubris, the mirror cracked
self believes shocked the vanity foundation.
How dare they we are the top predators
our rage will be swift and massive.
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The re-read (poet)

Hemingway was a writer suffering from a disabling inhibition,
the conversation he had with women in his books are based
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Eva Braun was a Greenland seal who lived in an aquarium
Herr Hitler liked animals; dogs adored him.
in childhood, his call for love denied him
his dream was sitting by the fireside stroking a dog
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Water shortage

In the deepest valley where the winter is short
summers long, sheep come home for safety
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A runaway mutt.

A dog bit a boy's hand for this it must die
in human society, a dog has to be nice
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Is Tanka a poem

We the classless
seek no revolution only fairness
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The Unbiassed Media

Bombs rain on Gaza, the youth throw stones, the Israeli soldiers killed
or maim stone throwers, a dance of death.
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