PATTI SMITH I am the sword / the wound / the stain scorned transfigured child of cain the word cain means worker… slayer… smith. a smith is one most wretched and blessed. picture two such smiths in the faces of arthur and frederic. one a vagrant and one a vagabond. both of them condemned to babble and battle. thru the heart of a map or the stop of a bottle. one morning about a hundred years before little richard baptised america with rockn roll, arthur and frederic and their sisters isabelle and vitalie labored thru the streets of charleville in white ribbons and cloth of blue to receive their first communion. close to the church it was arthur who broke formation and called to the other rimbaud children to come run with him thru the field, past the chapel off a bridge into the cold and finite waters of a river that led to the warm and infinite blood of christ. Patti Smith, Easter, New York, Arista, 1978
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