Just Kids

the story about Patti and Robert is incredibly beautiful, especially the way she romanticizes it. he was her first love, they went though so much shit together, they were broke together, they were hungry together (both literally and figuratively), they made it together.

the way Patti tells the story makes it seem that Robert coming to terms with his homosexuality didn’t decrease her love for him (and vice versa). which is remarkable bc it shows how deeply she cared for Robert as a person, beyond her own desires and wants.

together Patti and Robert become a part of the circle of some of the most inspiring artists of the last century (Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan), but even after them discontinuing their sexual relationship, they always look out for each other.

when Robert dies of AIDS, he wants Patti by his side and asks her to, someday, tell the story of them to the world. decades later, long married to her true love, she did.

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I wrote this two years after reading the book and it just took me 5 minutes bc the book encoded itself on my hard drive. Patti Smith doesn’t write outstandingly (at least in this book), but the story she tells is captivating and it enraptures what true love means to me.