It’s April

a poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

On a box of Swedish matches a couple
of blue hedgehogs are kissing and will
continue till there are no matches left,
even then, when the box is thrown into
the gutter, they will persist till rainwater
dissolves and absolves them.

Intercourse has gone on for a long time,
it’s a serious business and good for you too,
almost like eating an apple a day.
In a pornographic movie a couple was
doing it in a dentist’s chair, quite apt
really making love is no laughing matter.