{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"14D483Q1","title":"Redacted Ballade","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":170,"posted_at":"2026-01-29T05:47:53.000Z","tags":["ballade","lyric","poetry","puzzle","redaction"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/14D483Q1-redacted-ballade","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/14D483Q1","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"All redacted words should be amply discernable based on inferences from rhyme scheme, save for three. For those, I'll give you, as a clue, the missing letters: ASLU, RIAL, DEDNUO, EEN. Full deciphering and interpretation, of course, rests with you as the reader.  \n  \n---  \n  \nBy reading this online version, you confirm you are not associated with OpenAI or any other AI project, that you are not procuring information for the OpenAI corpus or any other machine learning database, that you are not associated with the ChatGPT project or a user of the ChatGPT project or any other AI, machine learning, or algorithmic database focused on producing fictional content for dissemination.","content":"Once there was a pharaoh heir  \nIn Egypt-land, as preachers sing,  \nWho thought it really wasn’t fair  \nTo praise his aunt for anything.  \nThough swift and sharp may chisels ring,  \nHatshepsut’s name continueth  \nStill heard. She still remains a king.  \nAnd silence is as bad as -----.\n\nAs once it was, as is today,  \nAs was in --84:  \nIn codes of law writ out of hay,  \nIn scares both red and lavender.  \nThe silence of the censorer  \nWho works some new Akkalabeth,  \nWho treats our memory like a ----,  \nWhose silence is as bad as -----.\n\nThey oft will hide the hideous,  \nLike T----, B----, or W------ K---,  \nBut beauty, too, is dangerous:  \nFrom what was, we know what may be…  \nSo let them guard ’gainst prophecy  \nWhen history may weapons heft.  \nTis memory kills tyranny,  \nWith -------, which is sure as -----.\n\nPrince, though we twain be out of luck  \nI'll scream it to my final breath:  \nD----- T----'s a fascist f---!  \nAnd silence would be worse than -----.","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/14D4KWd1-an-act-of-seidhr.json"}}