Monday, October 04, 2004
 
Thank Goodness for Concealed Carry

Emily Dickinson, Poem 551:
    There is a Shame of Nobleness --
    Confronting Sudden Pelf --
    A finer Shame of Ecstasy --
    Convicted of Itself --

    A best Disgrace -- a Brave Man feels --
    Acknowledged -- of the Brave --
    One More -- "Ye Blessed" -- to be told --
    But that's -- Behind the Grave --
Crikey on a cracker, if ever there's a time for footnotes, explaining to this forelorn and slightly half-baked poetical sojourner what the devil Pelf means is it.

I have but one vow: if I'm ever confronted by a sudden Pelf, the damn Pelf will get the worst of it.


- posted by Brian J. @ 10:44 PM
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