You don’t wake up in the morning and think to yourself, “Gee, Dolly Parton has made my day.” But sure enough, that’s what I am thinking today.

So, “Californication” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a modified ghazal (3 lines per verse instead of 2, but still basically closed stanzas that could be interchangably used with syntatic difficulty). In class today some students mentioned that there are rap songs that take this form, repeating one word at the end of couplets (or in RCHP’s case, tercets) that can be used interchangably. Anyone know any of those?

Some people say guh-ZAHL, some say GAA-zul. I’m ok with those. But please, please, don’t come near me saying “guzzle” when you refer to the form. Even if that’s technically correct. I just… I just don’t want to know.