Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

The ancient regime

I was in Shanghai once during the cultural revolution
everyone mostly young people wore the same grey clothes
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the pharma
We must say one thing clear the pandemic is running us
we try to reduce its influence by wanting people sitting in weeks in and weeks out
sooner or later, we have to be let out
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Restriction, restriction
The world is getting mad, and the police patrol cruises the street
if you are caught without a mask heavy fine awaits.
I see some schools are open, but some are not, there has been an outbreak
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We have got him now

All the Politicians of the republican persuasion
who defended Trump by being silent?
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Love Sonnet
This afternoon at the local grocer I had bought a bottle of beer
and a tin of tuna fish and I meet the daughter of the woman
I had been in love with, I had never seen her before and said
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As the day cools

It is getting a bit lonely here
as I`m not a member of the expat set
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Love is Odd.

She is in the kitchen cooking something for tomorrow
I do not criticise what she is doing
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Forgotten lives.

Happiness is an odd thing I have been watching
a program called “Benefit Street” where poor people
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End of democracy

I think we are witnessing a historic shift
the page has turned and our ideas about
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Alone in the night


During the night I had no angst
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