The brain is a mass of grey and white matter, somewhat oval in shape, with fissures and indentations dividing it into convolutions or gyri, with smaller subdivisious mapped out by sulci and anfractuosities. (Sulci is the plural of sulcus, which means a furrow. An anfractuosity is a winding or turning.)

The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc.

Hear she's bangin' that science teacher. Elliott? That needle-dicked little bugfucker? Nah.

So dense is the philly intalk and so laden with wisdom is the philosophy that undergirds the intalk that the editors of Nation Conscious Rap went to an indigenous north Philly philosopher whose …