The postman just arrived and delivered my new poetry book. It was in the cardboard envelop that Amazon specialise in and was delivered to me personally by special delivery on Prime.
As I eagerly unwrapped it my wife told me off for using Prime.
She is right. I do not like Amazon as a beast. It has displaced all those little interesting shops and the thrill of the hunt. Nowadays you can browse and click. There’s little pleasure in that. Pleasure is usurped by convenience.
I do not like Prime. They use special delivery and that is plain stupid. Instead of using the Post Office, with its centralised distribution, we have thousands of people, on low wages, driving and zig-zagging their way around the country to deliver tiny packages. Yesterday, on Sunday, I received a package of 12 pens. They cost £2.36p and were hand delivered. How can that be efficient?
But I wanted to hold my book in my hand. I unwrapped it and looked at the cover. I opened the pages and looked at my poems.
Those pages were white but now they weren’t. I had filled them with my ideas, thoughts and dreams. I had saturated those pages with my creativity. Everything inside was original and undiluted. The cover was my artwork. I had designed it.
While I was looking at the book with satisfaction my wife looked over my shoulder and commented negatively on the layout. She would have preferred the poems to be centred. I liked them justified.
She burst my bubble a bit. She thinks I write too much. That I should do less. That I do myself no favours by producing so many books.
She is right. She is always right.
But then, I was holding my book in my hands. It had soared out of the electricity in my head onto the pages and it set me alight.
Who cares if I am doing myself no favours. I am holding my new book.
Should you desire to see what this is all about then you can purchase my new book of poems on Amazon in the Opher Goodwin book section:
I’m excited. You might be too!
You might also like to browse through my other books. If you’re looking for something different and brilliant you will find just what you want here:
Have a look, check it out – and please leave a comment about what you think!
