JAN O. HANSEN
Diary of an Eight Years Old Boy
Rewritten

They haven't got guns in heaven only
knives to peel apples with and when
not eating they have to keep them out
of sight to avoid awakening violent
thoughts in newcomers. God has got
a gun, given to him of the producer of
James Bond movies, he often toys with
it pretending to be a gunslinger in
a western movie while waiting for his
seraphs to give their daily reports.
When it rains, here on earth, angels are
having a bath, lately they have been
bathing a lot, wish they would stop.
Once I picked up a chewed chewing
gum from the pavement and put it
in my mouth, later my sister wanted
it and I hit her over the head with one
of her dolls. That was because the devil
had licked on the gum too and given me
evil thoughts. It's difficult to be a boy
only when I try to sit still and read a book
is God pleased with me, when I feel like
playing and be naughty it is because
the devil is egging me on. Wish God
had a bit more sense of fun, once he
had mother says and that was when
I was born. Don't know what she means
by that.

JAN O. HANSEN
Haiku (about aging)

you are getting old
when knowing more dead people
than those still about.

old age is
when recalling soapy songs
from the fifties.