Analysis of Kid, Protect Thy King
Dr. T. Pinnock 1962 (Hartford, Ct)
As I laid in my institutional bed at 11 -pause
my mind exploded with dreams and ideas.
At first, I shared my
dreams and ideas
with my roommate, Richard Burney.
Richard was a Black teenager
with cerebral palsy.
I would say to Richard,
"Man, I have a dream that I will make cake (money),
go to Uconn (University of Connecticut),
get a chick (woman)
and have kids."
Richard would say,
"You ain't shit Teddy.
Nigger, you ain't nothing."
Richard was my negative roommate
for 8 years.
Richard's attitude was shared by most people around me. Basically, the institution was a place to eat, breathe, relieve human waste and die. It was not a place for the imagination to excite the prefrontal cortex - thinking brain. Creativity was never permitted to be planted, to take root, to grow, and to be harvested. Children with disabilities sat in their wheelchairs with their minds locked in a prison of loneliness, hopelessness, despair, poverty, and inferiority. Surrounded by pending death and gloom, I retreated to books and my mental room within a secure fortress of my five senses.
All the past and current motivational writers and speakers command, "avoid negative people and thoughts." However, most kids with disabilities live in the sewage of negativity. So I built a fortress in my mind from pieces of a chessboard. The king was my prefrontal cortex and the queen was my heart. The rest of the pieces existed to kill the incoming enemy of negativity. All the pieces needed food. The food was Star Trek, the Public Broadcasting Station, National Geographic, books, Playboy, and any library. The pieces ate the food each day and exercised. This food empowered my king to think, question and debate. I learned debating a long time with a negative person makes the person avoid me. Debating kills a fool. I committed many homicides or my pieces had the pleasure of the kill.
The King has a storage device that stores whatever is repeatedly seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted. Without the Queen and pieces to stop what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted the storage device stores any repeated information. My fortress refused to allow my device to store negative information about me, my future, and my abilities. My imagination and creativity took flight as Richard mastered cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, commercial TV ads, sports teams, and gossip. No matter what he said to me my King thought of how my future would be one of risk-taking - The risk of leaving the institution. The risk of going to college. The risk of working. The risk of marrying. My pieces killed Richard's words.
I discovered and protected my King at a very early age. I took many risks and had temporary failures: Divorce. Disbarment. Foreclosure. Few friends. But my King, Queen, and Pieces survived these storms of life. God blessed me with an awesome King. So God save the King.
November 24, 2014
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Metre | 111010100111 11010110010 11111 10010 1111010 1010110 110010 111110 111011111110 111010010100 10110 011 1011 11110 101110 10111001 11 1010111110011100001010111101101011110110001010100101010101001100101110111110111001010010010111111001011001000110000010001011010110101101101010011011110 1010100100100100101100100110111001001001010100111010011110101011101010001111011010010110101001010010101010111101010101000101101010010101110101101011111000111010011101001010100110101011010101011101010101 0110100111101010011110100101010111111110100100111001001011001101101111000100111100101001001000100111101001101010111110101101111111111110111111001110001001110110011100111001101101 1010001011101010111101011001001100101111110100111111111110111101 010 |
Characters | 2,905 |
Words | 497 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 105 |
Words per line (avg) | 22 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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