You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.
People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
Everything I publish is for my readers.
You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.