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user-inactivated  ·  3776 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Poem from a reddit user about the second ISIS beheading. To the tune, probably intentionally, of Masters of War.

I think in this case it definitely helps to have heard the song in question, but obviously poetry is subjective as all get out anyway.

Kipling famously wrote poetry for the masses, as it were.