POETRY • SATIRE • TRUTH, APPLIED

Wish You Were Colonized

A satirical vacation postcard from a world that insists colonialism is over

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Image: AI-generated using DALL-E and modified by the author; Poetry: written by Tristan Robert Lange, Human-authored.

it’s good to know
we are so very

post
colonial

i almost thought —
heaven me — it could be

bullshitonial.

what would i know?
i’m just booking my
american itinerant plan
to travel to the British

virgin islands.

owned by those
native hands.

on my way home,
i think i might go
to US Puerto Rico —

not sure, I’ll let you know —

a piña colada cocktail
and some hawaiian retail.

when i get home,
i will lay down my head
and sleep well in my