This line begins to parallel Lil Wayne and Louis Zukofsky, in the sense that others control or seek profit from their artistic output. In Zukofsky’s case, it’s his son and in Lil Wayne’s case, the people who profit from his brand. The “martyr” also plays on Lil Wayne’s recent brush with death.

This line refers to Lil Wayne’s business acumen as well as his renowned drug use.

Playing back on the theme of the song “Bitches Love Me,” this line refers to Lil Wayne’s haters or fans and how regardless, he is a manufacturer in branding his music and YMCMB. It also refers to how young he was when he signed with Cash Money.

This line refers to Lil Wayne’s public persona and brand, which is a company supporting a retinue of people. “all arts the wind blows” plays on a Bob Dylan line from Subterranean Homesick Blues “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” “Subterranean Homesick Blues” is a Bob Dylan rap song, more or less.

Day 26’s poem uses a still image from Lil Wayne’s video Bitches Love Me as a starting point. The boys are Lil Wayne, Drake, and Future in this case.

Again referring to Paul Zukofsky, who is unable to understand that poets steal, as is clearly indicated in the stolen lines that Zukofsky uses in his own poems.

Refers to Paul Zukofsky, son of Louis Zukofsky, who has repeatedly stated he will pursue anyone who tries to infringe on the copyright he holds for Louis Zukofsky’s words. Here is his declaration.

From “A-8” by Zukofsky. Zukofsky takes this line from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2” (II.iv).

From A-8 by Louis Zukofsky. Zukofsky takes this line from Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor” (1.iii), spoken by Falstaff.

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) was greatly influenced by Ezra Pound. He edited the Objectivist anthology inventing the term “objectivist” to describe the poetry of himself and other poets such as Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi and Basil Bunting, poets influenced by Imagism, but who also dealt with the “poem as object” and historical influences on the poem. In the tradition of Pound’s “Cantos”, Zukofsky began his long poem “A” between 1928-1930.