[Angkor]

Pent - I dig the Clock Work Orange allusion. And much like Kubrick's masterpiece, this verse shared themes of anarchy, intrinsic evil and violence. Biggest shared aspect was Rape, which you've used in a very well thought out metaphor. Clockwork used rape and sex violence as a symbolism of power and i love how that correlates with the raping of the innocent (land) here. Would it be a stretch to assume milk equal the climatic goal (orgasm)?? lol, maybe. Usually your verse is perfect with hardly any issue, but this one, in the technical sense, isn't as refined as i'm used to. There were a few slant rhymes and stretches lines that was very uncharacteristic of you. Either that or, as i've said many times before, i'm just reading it wrong. Although that aspect wasn't up to the usual standard i can't deny the creativity of this verse. Sure the whole spoils of war angle has been done to death but i think combined with the imagery (The mustache milk was very clever) and literary allusion, this maybe one of the best i've read. Salute.

Diode - Very nice brutha. I thought you executed your piece a little better than Pent, in terms of flow and cadence, while sharing somewhat similar themes. If i'm not mistaken, were u speaking in the voice of a rock? Very creative. I do have some issues with the plot, mainly the central conflict. I think we can assume why the conflict begin (differing philosophy, i suppose) but it was a bit too abrupt. After a couple of beautiful character developments, it just went into something else, without a proper plot transition. It was obvious u wanted to jump into the meat of the matter...but i felt something was missing. Some of the more polysyllabic word choices were a little random at times and didn't really compliment the piece all that well (it really stood out, but not in a good way). But overall, this was elite level writing and certainly one of the better piece of this round. salute.

Vote - I fucks with this battle because it's a lot closer than most other battles this round. It was pretty even, imo. Pent played on a product in one of Kubrick's film, cleverly dropping some nice commentary on the pillage (rape) of war, while Diode dropped a creative POV piece that somehow gave room/reason to do a couple of character studies. While both had 'not so great' stuff in their respective verses, i had to go with one that was too noticeable and that was Pent. Overall, it was clarity to me. Pent knew what he wanted to talk about and i felt he did well in examining it. Diode, was a character sketch that just didn't seem complete, for some reason. Something was missing. Both are deserving of the win and this is probably battle of the round. good stuff, fellas.