Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

Stay at you lest

In the working class district where grew up
Stay with your lest
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The Failure
When I was bored with sea life
and walked ashore in Santiago
I could find no work except in house of ill repute
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madness
Stood by the window, saw a man with a cane, walking
down the road, I waited for him to return waited all day long
till I was so hungry that I rushed into the kitchen
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ducks
It was an early Sunday morning in June
A man I a rowing boat stealing ducks in the lake,
who thought he was there to feed them,
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A River
It is a river in the middle of the landscape
not a famous river it has no university buildings
and it doesn`t appear in ancient books.
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Appointment

I have unfolded my poetic wings
they have no feathers and the downdrafts
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Gaza women

Mothers
Of Palestine
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The Vengeance
In the house were we lived had five families
a toilet for everyone in the basement where also rats lived.
The man in the flat under ours (one room)drank a lot and when
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FridayRain.

The café facing the busy street has big windows
I see umbrellas walking by, some of them stop,
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Doctor or Dentist

An enormous raindrop fell under an umbrella and nearly
drowned the occupant under it. A dentist came opened her mouth
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