Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Bio

Family Matters

Family Matters
There is a family nearby argues a lot fall out then makes 
 friends again with a glass of bubbly and an embrace.
 As it is, I have fallen out with an assortment of relatives 
who have stopped sending me pictures of babies which 
is a relief not seeing them or their ghastly infants again
My solitude as a hole in my heart I`m Mary Celeste 
a schooner found with all its trimming and hot food on 
the stove but no one to ladle it out and acerbic wit falls
 like an anchor chain into the sea of incomprehension,
 is he making fun of us; yes, but only gently so.
I must get a dog hate walking alone I used to have one
 it liked my talk demanded nothing but love it is easy to 
give to a creature that gives unconditional affection 
I have drowned friends on the Facebook they didn`t see 
politics as shifting sand and could accept we are entering 
a new era and a new explanation for our human conditions 
is needed instead of the corrupted social liberals who are 
idealists of a utopia, we shall not obtain. 
If I had a grandson, I could take him fishing in the dry lake 
he would see what I once saw go home and tell  his mum, 
who would shake her head and say you are turning   my son 
into a dreamer, one fabulist in the family is enough.

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