<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342908" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Something In The Papers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What's in the paper?' Oh, it's dev'lish dull:<br>There's nothing happening at all-a lull<br>After the war-storm. Mr. Someone's wife<br>Killed by her lover with, I think, a knife.<br>A fire on Blank Street and some babies-one,<br>Two, three or four, I don't remember, done<br>To quite a delicate and lovely brown.<br>A husband shot by woman of the town<br>The same old story. Shipwreck somewhere south.<br>The crew, all saved-or lost. Uncommon drouth<br>Makes hundreds homeless up the River Mud<br>Though, come to think, I guess it was a flood.<br>'T is feared some bank will burst-or else it won't<br>They always burst, I fancy-or they don't;<br>Who cares a cent?-the banker pays his coin<br>And takes his chances: bullet in the groin<br>But that's another item-suicide<br>Fool lost his money (serve him right) and died.<br>Heigh-ho! there's noth-Jerusalem! what's this:<br>Tom Jones has failed! My God, what an abyss<br>Of ruin!-owes me seven hundred clear!<br>Was ever such a damned disastrous year!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342908" data-title="Something In The Papers de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="'What's in the paper?' Oh, it's dev'lish dull: There's nothing happening at all-a lull After the war-storm. Mr. Someone's wife Killed by her lover with, I think, a knife. A fire on Blank Street and some babies-one, Two, three or four, I don't reme..."></div> </div> </div>

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