Quick thoughts:
Pinot - You wrote a whodunit verse with the reveal to be out of left field . I felt that the Bernie Sanders twist, while perhaps timely because of the primaries, was perhaps a little too far out of left field. Sure, mystery authors like Agatha Christie, often will have the left likely suspect be the culprit. But I would emphasize the word suspect. Bernie just seemed to be an afterthought. And then, I guess the second twist is that it's a Hillary Clinton ad that's made the whole story up to mudsling during the campaign. The writing was good.
PiE - I originally thought that the narrator was a female insomniac. After reading the verse a couple times I'm now leaning that the verse is more of a critique of television and how its consumed reality. Bad art imitating life, life imitating bad art. If so, I thought this was a dope idea. From an execution perspective, I thought it could have been a little cleaner. But there were some good thoughts here.
Overall: I enjoyed PiE's concept more, but I thought Pinot executed his topic better. Tough choice. I vote Pinot.
Cimm.
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