101 years well spent, eh, Lawrence Ferlinghetti bids us farewell once and for all... It is said that one day, exiting his bookstore City Lights, he encountered a very young Jim Morrison, a huge fan of his, who nervously greeted him before running away when the poet responded to the greeting, and that’s it...

in the photo: Robert Allen Zimmerman, Irwin Allen Ginsberg & Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti