Jan Oskar Hansen Poems

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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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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