Two Kings: A Distortion for MLK Day

Two Kings lay distorted upon the crucifiction of history, the riotous beside the just damned.

“I tell you the truth,” Martin voiced as he continued dying. “Do you think I did come to bring water to the earth, to drown out your suffering with hope? No, I tell you, but rather fire! Water is abundant upon this earth, but the passage is blocked. Burn all that you own, burn that which restricts the passage of peace.

"Today you shall be with me, seen in such great heights, I translated from my corpus and you obfuscated according to your callousum. But you will not remember me when you come upon your kingdom.”

"Take me up with you,” Barry said in reply, his ears clogged by the passage of his time. “Take me up with you, so that I may drop bombs from those great heights. That is the fire that I bring to those abroad in your name.”

This is, of course, a comparison of the conflation of the complexion of two central contributors to our culture to the cohortative crucifixion of a couple of criminals with the Christ character, the corpus in the comment being the corpse as well as the canon of comments cast into our cosmos by the Civil Rights champion while the callousum being a conscious commingling of callousness with the common codeword for our cerebral cortex.