Amazing. Genet is deeply important to me, as is Patti Smith. That she made gesture to the grave of Genet with this honor is uniquely precious. Folks, if you haven’t, get the fortitude and read Genet.

Just started to read M Train today and this precious gift floated into my hands. Thank you!

I read about this in her second memoir. Great to see this film.

This is truely wonderful. Thank you Patti. Thank you Jean

Danke dir Frieder Schlaich fur diesen schöne Kurzfilme

Thank you. Very moving and interesting, especially seeing the situation of Genet's grave.

Thank you very much for this.

The circle of life is like the oxygen that surrounds this planet.

Thank you for sharing.

So so beautiful!

C'est extraordinaire, merci ❤

Really enjoyed this

❤

so precious!! i m gay, trans and LGBTI human rights figther and this touch my soul, big kiss and hug for all of you and i i wish you the best. beijo grande de Lisboa ;)

Patti talked about this during camera solo press conference @ AGO 2013.

regardless of the fact Jean Genet died in 1986 , very cool. love Genet, love Patti

! #PattiSmith X Unapologetically Kind!!!

Jean Genet died in 1986, not 84. 15 April, 1986, a few hours before I was born. 1986 United States bombing of Libya, what she spoke of was the same date. Allegedly Hana Muammar Gaddafi was killed in the bombing.

Un petit garcon jouait autour de son tombeau....

Note: I am a fan, so don't get me wrong. However (with respect): Musicians don't understand writers at all. I didn't like her condescending egotistical tone when she mentioned Jean Genet not "liking girls". Straight people are so full of shit about that. Especially women. Also, a woman that is straight and jokes about gay men does so for a reason that a straight man does not. As Quentin Crisp so rightly pointed out about homophobic men, the reason straight men are homophobic is because the moment they are forced to consider homosexuals they imagine having sex with a man. That frightens them. Sex is a powerful expression of human identity. It doesn't offend me, however. I understand fear. I think it is amusing, though. Straight women, however, who talk about gay men are either forced to either do so with condescension, or egotistically. They can't help it. They have a powerful reproductive investment in men, that is to be understood as outside the will, so they cannot be despised for it. But my problem is the egoism of it. I want to say to all straight women: Get over yourself. You are not the only form of beauty. You are not the whole of the human story. Women seem to want to dominate and define what love is absolutely. I have a friend who writes gay erotica (he is a gay man, but I won't mention the name he writes under or his actual name, because it could damage his professional status). He tells me that the gay male erotica publishing field is almost completely dominated be women publishers. He has told me stories about having to do rewrites and taking notes and criticisms from straight women on, as he puts it, "everything from what a gay man would 'really feel in love'..." to how to better write an oral sex scene and make it closer to reality in gay sex.'" In one email, he made me laugh. "They are literally telling me how to suck off a guy." Ladies, we know penises better. I am gay. Listen, dear straight sisters, you don't understand. You are curious at best, and angry that you are not the source of his erection at worst. Also, had she really wanted to meet him, she could have found time to do so. So, she doesn't strike me as much of a pilgrim. LOL.