Love Poem: The Beetles
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Written by: Jan Oskar Hansen

The Beetles

The Beetles 
I will now write a love poem and will include
heart, souls, roses and a box of chocolate with nuts inside
but a song by the Beetles keeps getting in the way
“Will you love me as before when I`m sixty-four?”
 It was in Tokyo when heard the song I was visiting a girlfriend 
who was a stewardess on a liner, the song said it all.
A few days later I met a cook smelling of booze and underarm
sweat, he told me my girlfriend had a lover on the ship 
a steward, I confronted the man we had a fight and I was thrown 
ashore. She had stolen my heart, but I had the song;
so I will not write this love story after all,
perhaps tell you a story of Frieda, who collected monkey poo, 
kept them in glass bottles and inhaled the scent 
but she produced wonderful paintings.