Mario Santiago 'Advice to Selected Art Students and Poets'

Don't lose yourself to the word Art or art school or scene, don't get suck too deep into black holes between the thighs, whichever head you use, nor the vice of having no vices, don't get caught in wage labour or making money, money should only be cheated stolen or robbed never earned. That is the most important lesson never learned.- Mario Santiago 'Advice to Selected Art Students and Poets'

It was my first long-winded poem - Mario Santiago

Oscar Olivia told me: You have fifteen days, can you do it? And he was dangling the 300 pesos in front of only me and I told him hell yes, and I wrote a poem about 60 pages long. It was my first long-winded poem. My first solo reading was in the Museo de San Carlos on May 3rd of 1974. I wasn't born yesterday. And in 1975 I founded the Mexican Infrarealist movement. Around then they started to get sick of me, because I was confronting Pacheco, Monsiváis, everyone I know of. No one wants to give me a job. For four years I have no income. Sergio Mondragón has refused to give me a job because I'm an Infrarealist. They say I sabotage readings. They say the Infrarealists beat people up. And those idiots allege that I don't know how to write. Motherfuckers. I am l’ecrivain. But that's not important. Better if I read you some things...