Thursday, 3 March 2022

Written Rap Battles of Literature: Frankenstein’s Creature vs Shrike

 THE CREATURE

I'm the real deal, not this undead freak

Ought to be an Adam - tell that to any geek!

Felled by the power of love, you dropped like a stone!

Then you woke up, with only children, and all alone.

Remembering machine? I'm dismembering mechs

If this were a card game, I'd be dealing the decks.

SHRIKE

WHO LET THIS POSER ANYWHERE NEAR ME?

ALL YOUR WANTED WAS YOUR CREATOR'S LOVE, BUT HE HATED YE

YOU THREW A HISSY FIT AND YOU MURDERED ALL HIS FRIENDS

YOUR UGLINESS WAS A THING YOU JUST COULDN'T COMPREHEND

LET'S FACE IT, NOBODY WOULD PLAY GOD FOR THIS FREAK

HESTER WOULD RATHER DEFECATE ON YOU THAN ACCEPT YOUR MYSTIQUE

JUST COULDN'T WORK OUT HOW TO COHABIT WITH HUMANS

BUT EVEN I WOULDN'T FEEL SORRY FOR YOU, MAN

THE CREATURE

You're a mere curiosity, Orianna would quite agree

At least this MC's more of a semblance of humanity

I'm Olimpia's consort, and King of the Toylands

And I absolutely have never lost my hands.

My book challenged Regency thinking and science

Wantonly bestowed with life, yes, but by no means inept

I murdered at least three or four people and the secret was kept.

SHRIKE

YOU WANTED YOUR CREATOR TO MAKE YOU A BRIDE

I AT LEAST WOULDN'T WANT TO MAKE PEOPLE RUN AND HIDE

AT ANY RATE, IT WAS AN OFFENCE TO THINK YOU COULD REPLACE ME

YOUR BORIS KARLOFF DEPICTION JUST SCREWED YOU UP UTTERLY!

YOU DEBUTED IN A BOOK THAT PEOPLE DON'T READ ANYMORE

I'M SURE BYRONIC ANGST WOULD COME KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR

LOOK, I CAN CONDONE AT LEAST SOME OF YOUR BEHAVIOUR

BUT EVEN I CAN'T FORGIVE YOUR CAMEO IN HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA

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