OSKAR HANSEN
Texas
An explosion in the engine room and the ship needed
urgent repair in Houston ; I rented a car...a Buick I think
a big box like monster that skidded on slightest wet surface.
Mind I could only drive the car on my afternoon break.
Sundays was my day I started early took the whole off as
a chief steward I could do that leaving the cook to sort and
he was free to drink beer without me scolding him.
I stopped at a stud farm rented a horse, pretended
I was a cowboy, till got saddle sore, which I never got back at
the farm Norway when I rode bare back. A tee bone steak
with backed potatoes life was perfect but I left early feared to
get lost, Texas is a very dark place after sundown.
Back on the ship the captain told me to stay on board on Sundays
that he was the captain and not me. I should have invited him
on the trip too, but I preferred to be alone.
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OSKAR HANSEN
Tattoos
OSKAR HANSEN
Now that it is summer and the valley gets hot,
I get up early and drive around on my motorbike
before the sun burns the skin into dead ea rolls
of ancient script proving once and for all that
Israel was a district in Palestine.
The tattoo, on my body – I was a seafarer- looks
odd now that my body is no longer muscular but
wrinkled and the sail ship on my chest has sunk
and drowned in the many folds of my stomach,
that looks like a petrified sea, Luckily the ship was
Mary Celeste its crew rowed to my back which is
a big ocean and void of ripples. But I’m only ugly
in my own mind the people around her couldn’t care
less, they ignore me and that is scary.
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