Communist Woes or Is the Cold War really over now that Bobby Fischer bought it?
Communist Woes or
Is the Cold War really over now that Bobby Fischer bought it?
by quasimofo
For Boris Spassky
Maybe it was the tundra-bear parkas
Or checker-frocked whipper-snapper babushkas..
Lookin’ cool in cool doin’ what you’re told—
The lack of choice a red blessing’s mold
Melted down from tsar’s fret’s coffee house books…
A bohemian’s rancory nook.
They all swang Zhivago sickles and hammers
With smiles in heavy woolen comrade coats
Lower casing {c}apitalism and crazy ‘ah-cracies’—
The Ma-Pa bureau-god pogroms market mania exploiters
In a Kremlin neverland to dream its icy gloat
Fancying chess, women, and vodka delicacies.
But that Lenin/McCarthy record deal
Made Khrushchev’s mammoth-gut slipper peal
As kitchen circles dizzied smoke-eyed Stalin—
The thaw of blood bloc clots and walls fallen…
KGB cookies crumble on stacks and
Stacks of firewood and Eurasian heatwave..
good one, quasi. you pulled it in a little, harnessed the frentic mania. this one sits well after repeated washings.
Shizil! Presentation got fucked…my fault! Supposed to be dream song sonnet i wrote with Henry serving me daiquiris…3 stanzas of 6 lines a piece w/ interspersed. But yeah, a bit shorter than usual…not my cup of tea, though every once in a while can reign one in…thanks for comments Misener…i’ll bet you see quite a few chess connosieurs where you work…i see a inmates at the prison playing all the time half-naked in their boxers (what a contrast!).
I read a lot of news on death of Bobby Fisher and was surprised to find he was the Ezra Pound of the Chess World…anti-semite/likely fascist…and many of the blog entries were like “good riddance crazy genius” and such…thus the dedication to Boris Spassky who represented ‘Communism’ in the match of the century vs. ‘Free-world Fisher'(an ironic elegy to Communism?).
Mr. Fisher died in Reykjavik, Iceland, the sight of the chess matches vs. Spassky, which reminded me (totally off subject) of Indie film called “Reykjavik 101” where this guy lives with his lesbian mom and he has this one-night fling with his mom’s lover and the lover has a kid and then they all 4 live happily under one roof in which the bathtub is located in the kitchen. Look in the foreign section!