Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Bio

Water Everywhere

Water Everywhere 
A dam burst in Iraq and that`s how it began it rained for months 
and no one had thought of building a Noah’s ark fill it with pigs
to feast on when Christmas came around but there would be 
too many objections from practising Jews, vegans, not forgetting 
Muslims and the two Semitic people`s family would squabble as
they have done for centuries and the vegan`s would eat seagrass. 
When Himalaya was a reef sailors on ships had eaten each other 
sardines, a metre and twenty long, danced in The Radio Music Hall 
a shimmering synchronised display entertaining dolphins; and
 the Wall Street was a hangout for hammer- head sharks as were 
the way of the pre-flooding days. Finally, the water ebbed enough 
for the only man left to go ashore on the reef and dry his feet, 
burning his raft, smoke a cigarette and wondering, what happened
 to the blue whales.

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