Dear Comrade Sun-hwa,
You’ll be glad to hear the national egg quota has once again been met.
We celebrated with… eggs.
Two per department.
Of course, none of us actually saw the eggs. They were rerouted for “special distribution” before they reached our floor. Still, we observed the success symbolically—via a well-curated slideshow of poultry.
I’ve been assigned a new subtask: verifying the credibility of fertilizer narratives.
Most of them are… aspirational.
One cooperative reported a 300% yield increase after switching from ammonium sulfate to “collective spirit.”
I asked how they measured that.
They said: “Visually.”
Meanwhile, our copier now prints only in cyan.
The maintenance officer says black toner is “under long-term strategic consideration.”
All of our reports now resemble official invitations to a very sad party.
I do not complain. I observe.
And in observation, I survive.
Tell your cousin that her poster of the Leader as a mountain goat has been noticed.
She may wish to clarify whether it was meant as satire or as elevation. These days, it’s hard to tell them apart.
Yours bureaucratically,
Bo-kyung
Ministry of Agriculture
Dept. of Yield Optimization
(Acting Dreamweaver, Grade II)
Bo-kyung
Sun-hwa
