Something about the Poet Avraham Halfi

I don't know much about Avraham Halfi except that he was a unique poet. Some of his poems are well known in Israel as they were set to music and heard on the radio. I think he liked to drink ,because he wrote a lot about it ,and he must have been very lonely and melancholic since many of his poems deal with loneliness and solitude . He is very Jewish in that that he deals with the riddle of life , with humor mixed with agony. He constantly talks to the almighty and somehow he used birds as metaphore for people or for freedom

,. Here is a few opening lines of one poem that became a song

I'll buy myself a parrot ,
His name will be Yossi
I will talk with him

when nobody listens
And then I will tell him

I'll say..
Sadness is like a glass
and in it bitter wine
made of grapes of the soul

...So that's how Yossi got his name