Social Commentaries
The Foot-Hill Resort
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Assembled in the parlor
Of the place of last resort,
The smiler and the snarler
And the guests of every sort--
The elocution chap
With rhetoric on tap;
The mimic and the funny dog;
The social sponge; the money-hog;
Vulgarian and dude;
And the prude;
The adiposing dame
With pimply face aflame;
The kitten-playful virgin--
Vergin' on to fifty years;
The solemn-looking sturgeon
Of a firm of auctioneers;
The widower flirtatious;
The widow all too gracious;
The man with a proboscis and a sepulcher beneath.
One assassin picks the banjo, and another picks his teeth.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “The Foot-Hill Resort.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/151/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “The Foot-Hill Resort.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/151/.
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