She is a star who leads a bohemian life, of total freedom, without great means, with an insatiable curiosity for mother nature and those who destroy her slowly.
In Chinese astrology, 2016 was the year of the Monkey and that of the 70 springs of the mythical interpreter of
Horses
.
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That year, with her eternal suitcase full of the bare essentials, a handful of T-shirts, underwear, two notebooks, a book and her Polaroid Land 250, Patti Smith traveled.
Moves to the Dream Inn which she calls Dream Motel.
Watch TV shows.
Visits an old friend in a coma.
Hitchhiking in the company of strange people.
Drinks gallons and gallons of coffee.
Often she wobbles and falls asleep and seems not to know if she is awake or dreams that she is.
It is in the West that everything happens, the West, the real one, that of Sam Shepard.
His former
boyfriend
asks him to come see him in Kentucky.
The cowboy (who will disappear the following year) is no more than a shadow
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