Peace with her on her deathbed, so to speak, but at that age she was already in her early 80s, and, you know, again, ilts als a generational thing, so i didnt officially come out to her like i came out to my mother and the rest of the family. But she always insisted i was a confirmed bachelor but i would have children. At one point she offered me 10,000 to marry someone. This was my grandmother. You didnt know whether to laugh or cry. I wanted to take the money, but then when i said yes, sort of half fooling around, she said, okay, ill give you 5,000 when you get married, then 2,000 for every time you have a kid. So as i already said, my grandmother was the smartest and dumbest person i ever met in the world. When did you hfirst start what was it about poetry that attracted you . Ive always had a left brainright brain ive always delved in both worlds since i was a little kid. Some of that is in the book as well, sort of the engineer mind as well as the artistic mind. So but again, the