the ascension of patti smith via the artist robert mapplethorpe

'via' is probably unfair but i wanted something that would rhyme. anyway it is patently obvious that i read cxxii. just kids, by patti smith. really good! 'art' is something that i don't really understand as a lifestyle, but for the few days that i was reading this book i felt like i did. it also almost felt like a more mainstream streamlined version of eileen myles' inferno, in all possible permutations of the word 'mainstream', which is also unfair. but not in a bad way.