Surprise Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Surprise
The queen in her gilded coach pulled by four horses
Came gliding on the sea and towards shore where a group
Of men waited to be knighted

They had done their duty kept their mouth shut and
Averted their eyes the state`s illegal acts and now their
Payoff a title and membership on a board

The queen came ashore she had a white lion cub in
One hand and a hammer in the other and with it she hit
Each man over the head they fell to the ground…dead.

The queen a Marxist revolutionary had been silent so
Long but that she was old, the truth had to come out
No gilded coach for her but she kept the lion cub.