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Symbolic Bars: A Self-Deprecating Rap Poem
A short self-deprecating rap poem — six lines that own the bit, name-drop Vonnegut, and find the lyrical in the terrible. Swing anyway.
The best bars sometimes call themselves bad before anyone else can. Owning the bit lets you swing freer.
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I’m dishing out symbolic bars
Call me Kurt Vonnegut
Bearded like an animal
Intellect level Hannibal
Always terrible but lyrical
Always terrible but lyrical. That’s the contract. You don’t have to be good every time. You have to be lyrical every time. The terrible ones are still part of the practice.
— JTC