Social Commentaries
Exoneration
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
When men at candidacy don't connive,
From that suspicion if their friends would free 'em,
The teeth and nails with which they did not strive
Should be exhibited in a museum.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Exoneration.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/411/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “Exoneration.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/411/.
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