Kitty Hannah Eden, thank you for tagging me, I really appreciate it.

Even though my earnings never paid for more than a tank of gas a month, there’s nothing I would like more than see other poets and writers thrive. In addition to the reasons you gave, I believe when we write we push ideas into the world, therefore I try to take it responsibly and do my best at not to suck.

I really like the idea of a publication for poetry. Not only Medium needs poets, but this world needs poets.

Because we can signify the beauty of being alive, the struggle of an ungrateful job, or the trauma of abuse and exploitation not to mention what it means to feel, desire, love and lust in ways it is very challenging to do otherwise.

Even though I am making efforts to exist in the physical world, Medium has provided an incredible space in which people like you somewhere in Europe, me in the USA, Agnes Louis in Singapore, Trisha Traughber in France, Vaishali Paliwal (sorry, I don’t know your whereabouts but you know I love your work and I can no longer keep up with you, but never the less, I love it!), Lucy King in Japan/AUS, again I don’t know where Shringi Kumari is (London?), we can connect, exchange ideas and feed of each other’s beauty.

At the end of Calvino’s Invisible Cities the great Khan asks Marco Polo what to do of the inferno people create together, and Marco answers, all we can do is to learn to discern what and who are not inferno.

Thank you again Kitty Hannah Eden for Including me in the conversation.

Sorry for any typos, writing from my phone.

Pablo