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- Patti Smith to Robert Mapplethorpe
- Dear Robert,
- Often as I lie awake I wonder if you are also lying awake.
- Are you in pain or feeling alone? You drew me from the darkest period of my young life,
- sharing with me the sacred mystery of what it is to be an artist.
- I learned to see through you and never compose a line or draw a curve that does not come
- from the knowledge I derived in our precious time together. Your work, coming from a fluid source,
- can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with God.
- Remember, through everything, you have always held that hand, grip it hard, Robert, and donβt let go.
- The other afternoon, when you fell asleep on my shoulder, I drifted off, too.
- But before I did, it occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work
- and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful.
- The most beautiful work of all.
- Patti
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