{"id":32255,"date":"2013-01-21T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/a-revolver.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:06:07","slug":"a-revolver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/a-revolver.html","title":{"rendered":""A Revolver""},"content":{"rendered":"

A previously undiscovered poem by Carl Sandburg:<\/p>\n

Here is a revolver.<\/i>
It has an amazing language all its own.<\/i>
It delivers unmistakable ultimatums.<\/i>
It is the last word.<\/i>
A simple, little human forefinger can tell a terrible story with it.<\/i>
Hunger, fear, revenge, robbery hide behind it.<\/i>
It is the claw of the jungle made quick and powerful.<\/i>
It is the club of the savage turned to magnificent precision.<\/i>
It is more rapid than any judge or court of law.<\/i>
It is less subtle and treacherous than any one lawyer or ten.<\/i>
When it has spoken, the case can not be appealed to the supreme court, nor any mandamus nor any injunction nor any stay of execution come in and interfere with the original purpose.<\/i>
And nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the most revolvers.<\/i><\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Paula Jones<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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A previously undiscovered poem by Carl Sandburg: Here is a revolver.It has an amazing language all its own.It delivers unmistakable ultimatums.It is the last word.A simple, little human forefinger can tell a terrible story with it.Hunger, fear, revenge, robbery hide behind it.It is the claw of the jungle made quick and powerful.It is the club … Continue reading “"A Revolver"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29081,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/reconsidering-pot.html","url_meta":{"origin":32255,"position":0},"title":"Reconsidering pot","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 5-Aug-12 1:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"The War on Drugs is so all-pervasive in US law enforcement, and the perceived political costs of weakening it so great, that neither Congress nor the Executive branch seem willing to consider the absurdity of time and money and human suffering that stems from laws against marijuana.So I guess the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2Fmarijuana-shop-300x198.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26237,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/brian-s-brown-is-a-dolt-marriage-outlaw-frenzy-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":32255,"position":1},"title":"Brian S. 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