Café Montaigne 310: Poetry as a Refuge

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Café Montaigne 310: Poetry as a Refuge

Suicides are on the rise in this southeastern region and throughout Mexico. We are a country of suicides and murders. The more cruel, brutal and bloodthirsty, the better: they, the criminals, send a message to their rivals and to any citizen who does not follow their interests and extortion: they rule and go unpunished. A remedy for any kind of evil, a remedy against the above, including hopelessness? Read poetry. Poetry is absolutely useless, i…