Not A Sage Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Not a sage

He is old now, and eyes are watery he looks absent
and hiss ready smile has disappeared-
people ask him questions he cannot answer because
he is unwilling to say what they want to hear.
Yes, he is a communist but also critical of its policy
it can so quickly end up with an elite- sham labour unions
and loss of free expressions
Democratic- communism is not possible as people
we have not evolved enough to understand it's the concept
to explain will take too long.
He murmurs something, feigns hard of hearing
and let people talk to each other daily life were everyone
has an opinion, often ill-informed from a sentence
in a respected paper like the Guardian that is political
in a middle-class way.
He knows lies rules the world and that is the way of the world.