Social Commentaries
Hospitality
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
Why ask me, Gastrogogue, to dine
(Unless to praise your rascal wine)
Yet never ask some luckless sinner
Who needs, as I do not, a dinner?
Cite this poem
MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Hospitality.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/200/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “Hospitality.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/200/.
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