Object: A blank sheet of paper

Occupation: Poet

Age: 62

Location: My home in Roudnice nad Labem, the Czech Republic

I acquired it at the local stationary shop in exchange for money (roughly $00.05). Throughout my life, there has never been any other material object more promising and vexing at the same time.

The tanglible challenge to turn nothing into something; both the best friend and the most formidable foe.