Composed Chaos on Radio 3
A virus in ensemble with the slink
Of lizard made this drivel. Break it on
Your skulls. Reject it or the sounds will stink.
If it were only boring, you could yawn
The noise away, but it’s annoying.
The virus is like AIDS. It got its grip
In Stalin’s decades. It’s destroying
The reputation of composers. Thrip-
Like parasite, it sucks life and deploys
The elements of music such as notes
In discord and random clashes like boys
Banging on a keyboard like hard-hoof goats.
Some unexpected pauses are its chief
Endorsement, giving our only relief.
Composed Chaos, Protest Version
A virus in ensemble with the slink
Of lizard made this drivel. Break it on
Your skulls. Reject it or the sounds will stink.
If it were only boring, you could yawn
The noise away, but it’s annoying.
The virus is like AIDS. It got its grip
In Stalin’s decades. It’s destroying
The reputation of composers. Blip
It ain’t. It’s going on Radio 3
Still. Therapies to kill it are at hand.
The medicine comes from the mind if we
Just make it. The jabs are at our command.
The emails, tweets and comments on the web
Can cause this tide of infection to ebb.