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I'll call it as I see it, could be reading too much into some of this but here you go!

Split: Great verse, this format really suits you I think and you'll be there or there about come the champ match I'm sure of it. Your turn of phrase is brilliant, little snippets like the patio breathing were so well done. I loved it. Great word choice and a solid writers voice, maybe a more direct take on the topic than your two competitors here but I enjoy that. Solid as fuck showing, VOTW so far for me!

Vulgar - If I read it right, your verse was more about the importance of electricity and the people who brought it into our lives, with the CEO of the company our "God" if you will providing us with the wonder of light/power through electricity haha! I could be way off but that's how I interpreted it at least, really creative take on the topic and still retaining that Vulgaristic flair to the writing. This is quintessentially you. The left field take really works here, especially as I noted Dr. Dog was more direct in his. "Halls of sycamore with soul" was really dope too, I almost forgot to quote that but on first read that stood out to me for some reason. Great visual imagery for the reader to be fed. Top notch piece!

Witty: I've actually been following your ish at R-R so I had noticed you had done a few poetry orientated pieces recently different to what I'm used to reading from you. Different in a good way, though, and this one being the best of yours I've read yet. I took your piece to be about fire, and the fire being spoke about as if it was a metaphor for a lady. Sure, the metaphor may have been done before, but you had such a great turn of phrase and descriptions here that I can honestly overlook that and say this still felt fresh to me.

Her orange hair waves a victory salute
And her warmth heats the feet of heroes

Her red dress, shoulder high, beckons us to join
The dance she dances for eternity

Both of those deserved quoting in my opinion, very dope penmanship on display here, battle of the week? Without doubt IMO.

Okay so here's how I'm going to break this down as all three of you are infinitely better at this than I would be, Split and Witty had the flair to both of their writings that caught my eye and made me want to quote certain things from them - where Vulgar here seemed to flip the script on the topic and did something out of the box with it that I thoroughly enjoyed because it was so unexpected (to me , at least!) so purely for that creativity and originality this time around - Vulgar gets my first placed spot. Now out of Split and Witty, while both had a similar strength in their wording and drawing the reader in with rich vivid descriptions etc all I can think to seperate them here is again, Witty was a little less direct and built a verse AROUND the topic rather than do a verse already conveyed BY the topic if that makes sense? He didn't just write to what was on display, he took a different approach and crafted something a little different from it, and that's all I really had to split (pardon the pun) the two of you as you were both equal in execution and wording etc for me.

FINALLY, I'm going with:

1st: Vulgat
2nd: Witty
3rd: Split

Great battle, gentlemen!