Social Commentaries
A Fish Commissioner
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Social Commentaries
Great Joseph D. Redding--illustrious name!--
Considered a fish-horn the trumpet of Fame.
That goddess was angry, and what do you think?
Her trumpet she filled with a gallon of ink,
And all through the Press, with a devilish glee,
She sputtered and spattered the name of J.D.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “A Fish Commissioner.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/164/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “A Fish Commissioner.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/164/.
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