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Political Satire

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English Political Poems and Stories That Hit Hard (18+)

English political poems and stories that hit hard: censorship, propaganda, protest and dark satire from The Poetic Land's 18+ Politics room.

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In a country where every spoken word is taxed by the Ministry of Revenue, a family learns to say everything that matters without speaking.

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In an unnamed city square, a giant bronze statue of the Leader speaks after midnight about loneliness, pigeons and the fear of being taken down.

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A first-person account of the day officials held a grand ceremony to inaugurate the filling of a single pothole on the narrator's street.

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A fable told by a lonely ballot box, locked in a warehouse after an election whose result was announced before the counting began.

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A prose poem about a Ministry that officially decides the weather, and the citizens who must pretend not to get wet.

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When the Leader's beloved dog catches a cold, the entire nation's media, ministries and citizens are ordered to sneeze in sympathy.

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A clerk in the Department of Lost Complaints discovers where every citizen's grievance goes, and what happens when one finally gets read.

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A mock ode to the humble rubber stamp, the true ruler of every office, every queue and every citizen's fate.