that's just how people from the american surburbs do poetry when we first start. our only encounter with poetry is haikus printed on restaurant menus, and that combined with the spaced-out nature of our environment means that we initially (and without necessarily realizing it) tend to aim for a sagelike, ponderously sparse and slow tone. whereas since you grew up in a major city and a sound-environment with rap instead of weezer, your style feels more dense, packed together, tension filled. so since reason is clever we can tell what he's imitating but a minute of writing wasn't enough to shake out all traces of the self. this is all true btw.