I don't break in with commentary much anymore but song number 5001 (which passed the halfway point of this putative 10,000 song project without much commentary or fanfare) also marked the ending (one song prior) of an odd little sidetrack which I did not bother to label, call out, or count (at the time I was writing them), of rough quatrains with the rhyming pattern
A
A
B
A
I spotted the pattern (and occasional obscure references to it within the lyrics themselves) after a while during the transcribing from the handwritten originals in recent months, it stood out because that rhyme scheme is not a regular thing with me at all, and I had nary a clue what it was about until I got to this most recent song, where I appear to have consciously marked an end to it, and the Khayyam reference finally woke up my memory - right, the Rubaiyat. Someting I vaguely remember studying in college, but college was a long time back even in 2019 and what might have inspired this little homage or precipitated its end (other than just hitting the big number) is lost in the mists of time, which is also maybe half alluded to in the lyrics of Jettison.
Whatever its origin or intent, the series (if it can be called that) looks to have started with song 4955 on 11/26/2025 (just after number 4954 with its Scheherezade reference which was maybe relevant?) and runs for 46 songs, a number that does not seem to bear any relationship to anything. It seems like it was just a momentary goof that I picked up for a while and then dropped. A month and a half seems like a long play for something like that but you know, when you've written 5,000 songs and are aiming to write 5,000 more it's but a blip.
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