Here's to you, Nicola and Bart Rest forever here in our hearts The last and final moment is yours That agony is your triumph - Joan Baez

With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art

Of the many photographs I have of myself and famous people, there is one which I had framed and have never forgotten. It is of King and me at the head of that line of schoolchildren in Grenada, Mississippi. Ira is in back of me, and Andy, and then a long string of kids, all black.

True he was a vocal miracle But that's only secondary It's the soul of the monarch butterfly That I find a little bit scary