# Boycott explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

## What happens

A brief, metaphorical chapter describing a bomb (the boycott) being lit by Gompers, which shatters everything and reduces Gompers to a spot of grease.

## Character check-ins

### Unknown

The narrator presents the scene of Gompers lighting the bomb.

## Key lines

> This thing's a bomb, said Gompers, lighting The fuse; 'twill blow them all a kiting!

Gompers declares the boycott is a bomb and lights the fuse, expecting it to blow everyone away.

_Gompers initiates the boycott as a destructive force._

> Well, now 'tis shattered all to pieces. And Gompers but a spot of grease is.

Now the bomb has exploded into fragments, and Gompers is reduced to nothing but a grease spot.

_The boycott backfires, destroying itself and Gompers._

## Links

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