#FreeSPM In elementary, Carlos Coy was the first chair violinist in his school orchestra. But after being accepted to a middle school, well-known for it’s music program, the eleven-year-old lost his focus. For the first time in his life he realized he was poor. The kids at his new school wore Polos, penny loafers, parachute pants. They rode cool bikes he’d never heard of, and did curious things like trade baseball cards and attend barmitzvah parties. He went home and bought four dollars worth of bubblegum that came with a free baseball card, but nobody was interested in the cards he had. He begged his mom, for months, to buy him a Polo shirt but her grocery store paycheck wasn’t enough. Finally, Norma Coy saved enough to buy her son the shirt. He loved it so much that he began to wear it twice a week. This resulted in kids making fun of him. “Is that the only shirt in your closet!” they taunted. Carlos Coy changed. All the darkness he kept locked away began to move in like thick fog. He became a notorious class clown, stopped studying his orchestra songs and fell further back in chair ranking. In a matter of weeks he was the last chair violinist, which meant he sat furthest from the audience. This is so all the mistakes he made would not be heard by those who attended the orchestra’s performances. Today, once again, SPM is the last chair violinist. This time as the prisoner, the one who sits far from the sounds of society. They didn’t want to hear the mistakes of his violin, the mistakes that made him a living legend. They especially don’t want to hear of their own mistakes, specifically the mistake of locking away an innocent man. But just like The Forgotten will be remembered, the last chair violinist will be heard
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:18:04 +0000
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