Patti Smith, poet, 70's cult pop singer, devotee of Rimbaud & Wm. Burroughs, retired 14 years from stage to raise children, her husband passed away. We did Buddhist Jewel Heart Center benefit in 4,000 seat Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor U. of Michigan, she came out of retirement; next day signed new volume _Early Work 1970-1979_ in bookstore, then we suppered at Gelek Rinpoche's house, February 17, 1995.