0 an occasion when something bad happens to a person who seems to deserve it, usually because of bad things that person has done:
1 a punishment or a reward that you feel is just, esp. when it is unexpected or unusual
Poetic justice might be served by the denial of resurrection.
It would not only be justice but poetic justice if the assets of those involved in that vile trade were used to reduce it.
Maybe there is a kind of poetic justice in that.
There is an element of poetic justice in this matter.
Perhaps, therefore, one could say that it is poetic justice that my late noble friend has left me to carry on this matter.
In a sense, what we are doing today is only poetic justice and some kind of compensation for what we have done in the past.
Therefore, it is a little dangerous to make a forecast about 1970 unless it will be, with poetic justice, well after 1970 itself.
It might be poetic justice if we were to put them out of business legislatively for perhaps a month or even more.