Nothing says "honor the troops" like clumsy rhymes and comic sans.
Posted Apr 30, 2019, 2:19 AM UTC
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Love how they wanna honour the troops but won’t credit the soldier that wrote the poem.
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I mean, unless I was six years old, I wouldn't want to claim this pile of shit either...
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They need to teach scansion in schools, dammit.
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And rhyme. “Perfectly/permanently” “Upset/sunset” jeeeeez
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Good luck finding a job with a degree in scansion
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They wrote the poem and the realization of that still makes me hate them as a person for this shit. It’s so genuine from the heart that I can’t assume anything less than this kid 100% being a world class doofus
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Ehh, revealing the author is a child soldier might affect how many shares the post gets
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Why can't we go back to the days of warrior-poets?
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“Key of my bike will be his permanently” is probably the worst line in poetry I’ve ever read.
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And how does one “study perfectly”
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The writer doesn’t know. If they did they wouldn’t have written this.
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Tell my cousin to play the fiddle,
This dead soldier she'll no longer diddle.
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I thought the poem was beyond saving but your suggested revision gives me hope.
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I was NOT born to die for my country, I was born to make some dumb bastard die for his.
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Fuckin moto boner over here
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I'm just saying, if we want a more accurate portrayal of war... Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
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Heart touching poem by a soldier
More like a cadence DS sings as he smokes the shit out of 18 year olds who only joined to finance a Charger at 30%
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Is the soldier named Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings by any chance?
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The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
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BORN TO DIE WORLD IS A FUCK
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I was born to live.
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Tramps like us, baby we were born to ruuuuuun!
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Sounds more like a poem written by a middle schooler. The flow is awful and the syllable structure is way off.
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Middle schooler. Trump voter. Spot the difference in writing ability.
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How much do you want to bet this wasn’t written by a soldier at all. Since it has no source and it’s so clumsy I doubt it’s genuine. Probably some random guy who wanted to contribute propaganda to the world.
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So they ripped off the first two lines, and as soon as they were on their own it fell apart. That makes it somehow worse. Or at least stronger evidence of their poetry shittitude.
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This is a running cadence that most people learn in basic training.
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Not with that scansion it’s not.
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Yeah that version isn’t how I learned it
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Not a better story than Twilight.
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"Born to die?" Sounds pretty bleak, especially given that he/she volunteered to enter the armed services. Are we sure don't wanna put them on a 72-hour hold?
BORN TO DIE
WORLD IS A FUCK
Kill Em All 1989
I am trash man
410,757,864,520 DEAD COPS