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32. Hexed Decimation

the1truesushiboy

on Jan. 15, 2011

TL;DR - The words at the end of each line are colored for a visual gag.
This is a poem… But not just any poem. This poem requires use of color. Although it can be read by itself, this poem is also a visual joke. For the geeks out there, the title may give it away. But it is a bit convoluted. You see how the last words of each line are colored? (Maybe not, they're pretty light tints.) They're colored because each of those words doubles as hexadecimal color codes, which, for those not in the know, are six letter codes of any numbers 0-9 or letters a-f (e.g. #e34234 is vermillion). SO I went out of my way to find all the six letter words that can be made with the letters a-f. There were only a few more than these, but they either were really obscure words or I didn't feel they were poetic enough, if at all. So I picked these six to use. And I wrote a poem. A poem that actually rhymes too, despite the incredibly limiting nature it has. It also references itself and the visual joke it employs. Both a visual pun and general wordplay are present and it needed to be shown as some kind of picture, what with the color, so I thought it only fitting to turn it into a one-panel MiniMel page. I'm rather proud of this one. :]
Oh yeah, and the number of words and syllables in each line work into the "hex" theme:
4 & 6
3 & 4
2 & 3