Shoot Down the Balloon

Shoot Down the Balloon is a political satire that questions the value of progressiveness and technological advancements at the expense of humanity. With politicians utilizing advancements to retain power and whitewash corruption, the poem mocks the farfetched ideas that the state expects us to believe instead of what’s really going on. The collection of poems addresses topics such as social credit scores, UFOs, space aliens, artificial intelligence, deadly mechanical dogs, and injustice fighting feminists. The purpose of the poem is to satirically entertain as well as question unbelievable explanations. As the government conjures up their next coverup narrative, Shoot Down the Balloon exposes their fraud using satire. The story consists of ten independent poems. Each poem is eight stanzas long, those of which contain four lines in rhyme and written in perfect iambic pentameter.