Jan Oskar Hansen Poet Blank verse

Western Movies

Western Movies
At the Chinese supermarket, they were selling cowboy revolvers 
with holster very cheap they looked, and I tried one, but it was too light, 
I have never held a revolver but thought they must have some weight
in the American city slums, black gangsters shoot not pointing but with 
the hand held flat, and they tend not to hit anything but a wall this
his because they have seen this in a Tarantino movie.
In my childhood, we watched Hopalong Cassidy he when opening
 a salon door chewed spearmint gum drugs was far from his mind. 
There is an institutional bias against black people I think when police 
the program is always showed someone black, and they get arrested for 
the banalness of crimes, like having a bit of marijuana in their pockets.
But where poetry congregate the majorities are blacks this is not 
because they want to be there but little has been done to get them out 
of this mess, the slum and the gangs were they are,  welcomed and can 
For a short time drive around in an expensive stolen car and feel like 
winners and throw money about, and not saving the loot. And out of
crime private corrections centres make money

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