On the Facebook page Black Canadian Veterans Stories of War, the son of a Barbadian war veteran and poet posted a personal photo of a smiling Clarke in a tuxedo, pipe dangling from his mouth, explaining

And I started first with cow Achilles tendon, where we would take the cow Achilles tendon, which is type I collagen, strip it of its antigens by degrading it with an acid and detergent wash and forming it into a regeneration template.