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.
