Death & Dying
John Irish went, one luckless day
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
John Irish went, one luckless day,
To loaf and fish at San Jose.
He got no loaf, he got no fish:
They brained him with an empty dish!
They laid him in this place asleep--
O come, ye crocodiles, and weep.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “John Irish went, one luckless day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/424/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “John Irish went, one luckless day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/424/.
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