History & Politics

The Boss's Choice

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)

History & Politics

Listen to his wild romances:
He advances foolish fancies,
Each expounded as his "view"--
Gu.

In his brain's opacous clot, ah
He has got a maggot! What a
Man with "views" to overwhelm us!--
Gulielmus.

Hear his demagogic clamor--
Hear him stammer in his grammar!
Teaching, he will learn to spell--
Gulielmus L.

Slave who paid the price demanded--
With two-handed iron branded
By the boss--pray cease to dose us,
Gulielmus L. Jocosus.

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Boss's Choice.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/67/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Boss's Choice.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/67/.

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