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Cereal_Killa: In a way, this feels like the verse you've been trying to write all season or even beyond that. This was beautiful, breathtakingly so at times. The poetry moved but didn't drag anything along with it. Your story moved independently, and your characters came to life. The stanza about the pocketbook was probably my favorite, a seemingly thrown-in thing that ended up being the crux of the meaning of everything. The rhymes could have been a bit tighter throughout, and I feel like you did a better job in that aspect last week. But everything else about this was you at your peak form, which still was a bit too vague and loose to maybe beat the best at their best but can at least compete with anyone.

Frank: I totally get the strategy you went with here: You told as straight-forward a story as you possibly could to counter what you knew Cereal_Killa was going to throw on the table, to use your verse as analogy. It was a smart tactic that could have worked had Cereal_Killa not gone so above-and-beyond. Instead this verse came across as a creative take on the topic that was just a little too simplistic and thin, comparatively. The rhymes were good, and your writer's voice seems perfect for a story about Las Vegas. But I was hoping for more in the ending or perhaps just a thicker plot in general.

Vote: Cereal_Killa