Social Commentaries

For Tat

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Shapes of Clay (1903)

Social Commentaries

O, heavenly powers! will wonders never cease?--
Hair upon dogs and feathers upon geese!
The boys in mischief and the pigs in mire!
The drinking water wet! the coal on fire!
In meadows, rivulets surpassing fair,
Forever running, yet forever there!
A tail appended to the gray baboon!
A person coming out of a saloon!
Last, and of all most marvelous to see,
A female Yahoo flinging filth at me!
If 'twould but stick I'd bear upon my coat
May Little's proof that she is fit to vote.

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “For Tat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/340/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “For Tat.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/340/.

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