A third-grader wrote a haiku about Call of Duty that hilariously reads like it came right from the game’s voice chat. Although Call of Duty games receive an “M for mature” rating every year by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), it can be quite common to hear the voices of younger gamers trash-talking their opponents during an online match. Call of Duty has become less popular among children with games like Fortnite taking its place because of its crossovers, building mechanics, free-to-play structure, and of course, its popularity with streamers and content creators. Fortnite is also more attractive to parents due to its less realistic violence compared to games like Call of Duty.

Haikus are a form of Japanese poetry recently featured in Ghost of Tsushima consisting of three lines broken down into five, seven, and five syllables respectively. Haikus began as “hokku:” the opening stanzas of “renga” or “linked verse” poems that were collaborations worked on by multiple poets. The haiku started to gain independence from its progenitor form around the 17th century but weren’t renamed until the 19th century. Haikus were traditionally written about nature and the turning of seasons with the goal of provoking strong emotions. But they're not typically written about games like Call of Duty.

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The Call of Duty-themed haiku was posted in the CODWarzone subreddit by Kreuzberg13 (via Game Rant). Kreuzberg13’s partner works at an elementary school and the coworker of the user’s partner was teaching her students about poetry and had her students write haikus. The student whose poem was featured seems to have successfully met the requirements of the assignment even if its content was comically rude gamer talk on paper.

The student’s poem, “Call of Duty,” is about the poet killing the reader from afar in-game while equipped with a sniper loadout. The first line is a declaration that the author killed the reader, followed by the method used to snipe the reader, and ending with a hard-hitting insult. The 360 no scope mentioned in a poem is a difficult technique in first-person shooters in which a player spins his/her/their camera around in a complete circle, then successfully shoots the intended target without using the scope of the gun to aim.

It is embarrassing enough to get “360 no scoped” by a child and to hear his/her high-pitched mocking over the TV speakers or headset. Being sniped through poetry, while not about nature, invokes strong emotions of anger and shame. The student who wrote this poem is definitely creative and the teacher who assigned this exercise saw that. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall of the parent-teacher conference that probably ensued about the student’s violent poem, “Call of Duty.”

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Source: Kreuzberg13Game Rant