66347, chess, Mozart – poems 2 die for

IF CHESS

if chess
were music
it would
be Mozart

the melodies sparkling
and yet fastidious
scarcely can tell
anything of
rebellious Aquarius
in there at all

if chess were
soundtrack

wouldn’t be
punk rock, wouldn’t
be Led Zeppelin

yet
   Mozart seems
prepared to
rock-
hard
            go hard
                  rock

be our favourite snotty-nosed
neo-classical punk

inclined to
    tease the establishment
as far
as he could get
stick
that
       dissenting finger
everywhere, from
tune to theme
(cleverly disguised to
rhyme
    with the times)

see them
for the wooden
major minor pieces
that they are
carved
for the ranks and
files and
to dance the diagonals
(Archbishop black and Archbishop white)