Lawrence Ferlinghetti and I Talk Lawrence Ferlinghetti and I talk. We are at the opening of his art exhibit that I call “A Berkeley of the Imagination.” It is worthy of the author of “ A Coney Island of the Mind” and “A Far Rockaway of the Heart.” His lyric escape from current political correctness is an entrance into a reality larger than words alone They visually re-present the shapes and colors we need to live. Ferlinghetti is razor thin and razor sharp. I try to tell him how much I appreciate this creativity of his at ninety years of age because I’m getting there myself. How old are you? he asks. I tell him and Lawrence Ferlinghetti laughs in my face. Like Jolson at the birth of the Talkies, Kid, you ain’t seen nothing yet! And in that moment, I am in High School. By David J. Randolph © 2009