The Lonely Man

[Engelbert Humpalot]

I passed him tonight
a lonely man
walking the night away.

I had a smile ready
and my mouth chewed out:
'Fancy coming home for a coffee?'
but he just stared at me
looking through me.

So I walked on
and said nothing
to the only man
I'd met on Hampstead Heath
after midnight
who didn't like coffee.

[Stanley Brown]

This smacks of perversion. Why not write about nice things instead of filth and perversity? Thankyou. Stanley.