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Title:
Oslo City (2009)

Author:
Simon Stranger

Publisher:
tekstopia.no

Place:
Oslo City in Oslo

Read by:
Anders Sundnes Løvlie

Registered by:
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Oslo City is the name of the biggest shopping mall in the centre of Oslo. [The name has not been translated here - it is a Norwegian shopping mall with an English name.]

Oslo City

And just the name in itself, city,
Just that reveals the desire to be something else
Something bigger
Like the teenagers in the square outside
Striving to be adults
In an almost comical distortion of adult life
Like the daring clothing
On young girl's bodies
And the boys
With their underpants showing
Sigarettes
And large, gesturing movements of the arms
Like heads of state
Or directors of the orchestra

But inside, beyond all this;
All the things
All the lamps
The trousers
Cameras
Wine bottles
Cheeses
CDs
Carpets and computers
Cell phones and coffee by the kilo
All of this
Just stop for a moment
And think about where it all comes from
The amount of stories tied to each one of them
All over the earth