ferlinghetti beat

in Sandusky, Ohio an ambitious woman began putting

in an art center. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

was invited.  he came; picked up a brush, 

began painting a modern picture on a wall;

 

later he asks for the section of the plaster wall he

painted be sent to his City Lights Bookstore

on a downtown corner in San Francisco. 

was it shipped?  i don't think so.

 

he was seventy then.

i remember him as old.

i'm 75 now ... still chasing beat poetry.

he's 101 now.

 

if he had donated his wall painting where 

it stood there is a chance it would 

still be there today.

well, good for Lawrence and his bookstore

in San Francisco.  I saw his corner everyday when i worked in the pyramid. 1981.