Plates · 85 × 81
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rap beefs be like 'I don't like you so I wrote you this poem'
The plate
Fig. 185 across, 81 down.
The grid itself
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~ hostility, but make it scansion ~
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: || |;;;| || between them | |---|-----|---| :
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v THE POEM, DELIVERED v
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ __
│ Dear enemy, | \\/\// │ | _]
│ | < ◉ ◉ > │ .--||-----.
│ I have hated you | < ~~ > │ | || │
│ in strict iambics | < ╰──╯ > │ | || |
│ for eleven stanzas | \/\/\/ │ __|__||_____|
│ and revised each one. | │ \ |
│ | recipient: YOU.......: │ ____ ||
│ That is not hate. | │ |== []| ||
│ That is attention. | postage: one whole │ | ==== | ||
│ | career........ │ '------' ||
│ Yours, faithfully, | │ the mailbox
│ your favourite enemy | do NOT reply in prose │ accepts only
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ rhyme now
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( \'--'/ ) the rose sent with it:
( '..-...' ) stem first,
'.'-._.'.' thorns deliberate
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< \ / \ (=^.^=) (⌐■_■) (o_O ) (╥_╥) ( ^◡^)
__ \\|_/ the crowd cannot decide who won
/ \ \\ which is the point of the whole form
'--'.\ >
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│ BEAT.MOD — the tracker underneath every beef bpm:092 │
│ ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── │
│ 00 │ KICK ▓▓ │ .... │ SLIGHT.. │ "he called my metre lazy" │
│ 01 │ .... │ SNARE ▒ │ VERSE... │ "so I annotated his entire life" │
│ 02 │ KICK ▓▓ │ .... │ VOLLEY.. │ "he replied in terza rima. coward." │
│ 03 │ .... │ SNARE ▒ │ LEGEND.. │ "we are taught in schools now" │
│ ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── │
│ [SLIGHT]──▶[VERSE]──▶[VOLLEY]──▶[STALEMATE]──▶[ANTHOLOGY]──▶[LEGEND] │
│ the sequencer knows: every beef ends as literature │
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♪ the beat forgives no one ♪ When
Has not led the front.
With
Backlinks
- Nothing points here yet.