The Night - Patti Smith&Tom Verlaine(poems)1976+Tom’s “Ore“ song

Scans of scarce poetry book(let) “The Night“, by Patti Smith & Tom Verlaine, published 1976. The music is from Tom’s 1992 instrumental album, “Warm & Cool“. The piece is called “Ore“. The book was called The Night reportedly at least partly ’cause Tom & Patti completed all the poems in one night. Even numbered poems are by Tom, odd numbered by Patti. Patti consciously relates the book to French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as you can see from the last two scan pics, & from the French she scatters here & there. But
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