He had the look of an intense, serious, distrustful, violent person, which is to say, nobody you would associate with poetry, although I know perfectly well that there’ve been poets who were intense and serious and distrustful and even violent, take Díaz Mirón, for example, but don’t get me started, because sometimes I can’t help thinking that poets and politicians, especially in Mexico, are one and the same, or at least I’d say that they drink from the same trough.
