Shamelessly stolen from the ubermind at Knuckledraggin My Life Away | Where Bad Choices Make Good Stories
After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of
universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I
reach my hands and play with pebbles of
destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs
reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.
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You have to go see the new reboot of Shaft. Grandpa Shaft has an arsenal sort of like that.
Wirecutter tickles me.
For the cost of that gimmick, it is lacking in content.
Those rifles that come down from the ceiling are stealing space from the floor above, or is displacing the insulation in the attic.
Not a big fan of concealing guns. Years ago, when I lived in suburbia, yes. But out here in the hinters there is no point, so I don’t. I do, though, have a burnt/antiqued confederate flag cabinet on the wall of my office I made a few years ago that houses 2 of my ancestors relics from long ago that rarely get used. Other than that all the rest are immediately available.
If you gotta hide em you should exam your premise.