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| [ FOTO: Howard Barlow / The New Yorker ] |
Tom Verlaine faleceu no dia 28 de janeiro, em Nova Iorque — contava 73 anos. Na revista The New Yorker, sob o título 'He was Tom Verlaine', Patti Smith recorda o seu amigo e companheiro num texto tão breve quanto comovente. Como ela escreve, o som das gotas de água a cair numa superfície ferrugenta bastava para que ele criasse um acontecimento poético. Aliás, diz mesmo que foi assim que nasceu a canção Marquee Moon [letra + video], do álbum de estreia, homónimo, dos Television, lançado em 1977 — é um belo texto que vale a pena ler.
How the darkness doubled
I recall
Lightning struck itself
I was listening
Listening to the rain
I was hearing
Hearing something else
Life in the hive puckered up my night
A kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand neath the Marquee Moon
Just waiting
I spoke to a man
Down at the tracks
And I ask him
How he don't go mad
He said, "look here, junior, don't you be so happy
And for heaven's sake, don't you be so sad"
Life in the hive puckered up my night
The kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand 'neath the Marquee Moon
Hesitating
Well, the Cadillac
It pulled out of the graveyard
Pulled up to me
All they said, "get in, get in"
Then the Cadillac
It puttered back into the graveyard
Me, I got out again
Life in the hive puckered up my night
A kiss of death, the embrace of life
Ooh, there I stand neath the Marquee Moon
But I ain't waiting
I remember
How the darkness doubled
I recall
Lightning struck itself
I was listening
Listening to the rain
I was hearing
Hearing something else
>>> Tom Verlaine na Wikipedia.
>>> Site oficial de Patti Smith.