What started as an attempt to be funny turned out to be anything but - in fact it turned into a record of a very difficult time with a mix of personal challenges and external events leading to a compulsion to 'get it out'. So it's out, and you're now holding it, if you'll excuse the phrase. The poems contained within are a mix of personal and political, humour and anger, frustration and relief and chart an individual and nation in a state of dramatic decline. The individual is doing much better now - the nation probably needs more drastic help.