Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live In Europe 1990)

I had a backpack
and a Euro-rail Pass
the year she performed
this. In Spain, I saw
women riding double
on Mopeds
in miniskirts riding over
cobblestones, over the memory
of fascism we Americans
thought we'd defeated.
My, how I loved her.

Patti Smith Interview: Advice to the Young

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