Winter – poetry book

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Winter is my twenty first book of poetry. This is the paperback version. It includes the poem, coffee strong.

You drink your coffee strong,
you drink it strong,
and you look at the world,
the world gone wrong,
and you have a dim view of it all,
and you hate the complacency and the bureaucracy,
and you hate the problems left unsolved,
and you wish you had a gun for every problem,
but no one listens to you,
and no one has ever listened to you,
and you are happy to be alone,
drinking your coffee strong,
because you have no rose-coloured spectacles,
with which to view the world,
this world gone so horribly wrong,
so horribly wrong,
and the reality of the world,
with its constant famine and drought,
and poverty,
and gun crime and knife crime,
and rape,
and torture,
and murder,
and wars,
they linger bitterly on,
and you want to shout and scream at the wrongs done,
and let all the anger out in your educated vocabulary,
as you have done so many times before,
but sadly, now you have given up,
and no matter how many times you complained,
still the world stumbled blindly on,
and now you in your heart,
you have accepted the state of humanities stupidities,
and its predictability,
and its seemingly never-ending want,
to erase humanity from the Earth,
and you want to shut yourself off from all of its wrongs,
and now, you are happier alone,
drinking your coffee strong,
and happier with your plans,
soon to be on an island alone,
without humanities stupidities facing you daily,
and continual stories of miseries and suffering,
and you will be much happier,
drinking your coffee strong in the sun,
far away from the newspapers,
the magazines,
and the radio,
the Internet,
and the television,
on your own island in the sun,
drinking your coffee strong,
drinking your coffee strong where there is nothing wrong.