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ZYG: I find your wide variety of writing styles to be interesting. I get the impression everything you write is built as a challenge to yourself to execute it. Anyway, this one reminded me a lot of the other verse you dropped this week, the Write Week 3 topic on roads. But I liked that better because the discussion was fresher. You had a lot of very interesting concepts in this verse, but I think they needed to be worded with more complexity. As is, it felt a bit like a very lecture. I know your writer's voice is intentionally emotionless, but here the detachment made it impossible to empathize with the speaker's points. I did love a few of your individual thoughts, like holding things close because holding them far away tires the arms. I will say this, too: It'd be easy to say you took the simple approach, but no one attacks topics with this much directness. That's not simple. Pulling it off is incredibly difficult. The simple take on these kinds of topics is to go with a very direct story. You went with a real challenge.

Diode: This take on the topic was pretty fucking genius. I think you could have done more with wordplay to specifically foreshadow R. Kelly (as opposed to just any black singer) being the man, but you went with a more straightforward approach to your brilliant concept. Your writing was OK. The rhymes were hit or miss, with some better structures as you dug in a little bit. The second real stanza was better than the first, but overall your writing was effective but not memorable. That didn't matter because the take on the topic was so good and legitimately funny.

Vote: Diode

Aside: This battle is less than one-sixth as long as YDK-Frank.