From the recording Eco-Centric
What may I say about Unit “A” except that I was an “A” level tennis player or higher for several years…Unit “A” of the psych ward at Marin General is a first-class institution where the Drs. and nurses actually want you to succeed and are glad to help—even if it means illuminating to you pictures of female llamas!….This isn’t One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Nurse Ratched and subsequent, chemically induced lobotomy for someone as astute as McMurphy’s flippant, albeit self-sacrificing character…”Spark the Stick!” chorus is reminiscent of magic dust from my tennis racquet’s line pasting fuselage…Or, in the alternative, it is the coerced sleep deprivation that has landed me in wondrous Unit “A” dozens of times with my sanity and sleepfulness virtually intact upon departure….I know I can do better by accepting good loving and help there…That is one first-class place with caring practitioners and fellow patients, unlike some of the “bad places” lurking out there…itching for the demise of Jack Nicholson…Thank G-d for the grace of Unit “A”! And to hell with unfairly levied conservatorship for this world-class writer, uncannily gifted musician, and almost world-class tennis player, who did well in a couple of ATP Professional Tennis pre-qualifiers! With a law degree to boot! Quite frankly, while I have suffered from some delusions, I do not need to perennially be in a synthetic, medicinally-induced stupor that reduces me to an intellectual pigmie…How pathetic is someone or something to keep “sparking the stick” underneath me like a Pitch-Forker!