Social Commentaries

The Foot-Hill Resort

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)

Social Commentaries

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.

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Foot-Hill Resort.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/151/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Foot-Hill Resort.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/151/.

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