The King has fallen, <br />His castling did not work, <br />The horsemen of death took him away, <br />No longer on this earth would he have Chess to play. <br /> <br />The genius that had taken him to heights never before imagined, <br />That thinking may have caused him to think irrationally. <br />So there is fine line between genius and insanity, <br />He renounced the American citizenship, <br />He considered the allied powers are the axis of evil. <br />He was 64, <br />he never got older, <br />(According to Lennon-McCartney) <br />So he will go down in history defeating Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War, <br />But no in the minds of patriots who gave their life for this country and the world, <br />Yes, the world, if things were different he would die in a Nazi controlled Iceland, <br />There he would fit well; <br />his bigotry was out of sight, <br />Because of his anti-Semitism, <br />along with Henry Ford, <br />he would be speaking German, <br />And defend his title for Deutschland. <br />For the Fuerher and the Third Reich. <br /> <br />(1-18-2008)<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/checkmate-bobby-fischer/
