{"id":2447,"date":"2021-03-26T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2021-03-26T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T05:05:46","slug":"snug-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Snug Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grocery store&#8217;s the new killing floor.<\/p>\n<div>And those without an arsenal aren&#8217;t cool.<\/div>\n<div>Man can&#8217;t even get a decent massage any more.<\/div>\n<div>And those guns that they carry ain&#8217;t old school.<\/div>\n<div>Got bombs and vests and sprays for pests<\/div>\n<div>and long gun rapid fire.<\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re turning back to the Olde West,<\/div>\n<div>where more souls will expire.<\/div>\n<div>There&#8217;s good and bad on both sides,<\/div>\n<div>and they&#8217;re all allowed to carry.<\/div>\n<div>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s the good ones<\/div>\n<div>we most often bury.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grocery store&#8217;s the new killing floor. And those without an arsenal aren&#8217;t cool. Man can&#8217;t even get a decent massage any more. And those guns that they carry ain&#8217;t old school. Got bombs and vests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2447\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":677,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=677","url_meta":{"origin":2447,"position":0},"title":"Quintuplet Bypass","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Whatever you do, don't go near the quints. They'll pluck your eyes and grind them into mince. Born to evil and grown madder since, their very presence makes one want to wince. It's just as if the devil split in fives. Those who near them soon break out in hives.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2075,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2075","url_meta":{"origin":2447,"position":1},"title":"Boys&#8230;","author":"Rick Young","date":"October 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Take Your Guns to Town. Do not put them down. March around the polls. Hunt them down like trolls. Wear your camo duds. Drink suds with your buds. Take Your Guns to Town. M' boys don't mess around. Must intimidate. Voters who aren't great. Fuck authorities. Scare minorities. Wanna be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Song&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Song","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=30"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=278","url_meta":{"origin":2447,"position":2},"title":"Men and Guns","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This infatuation needs examination. A preference for guns amongst the thousand funs indicates a flaw, even for the law. Take the rod God gave you. 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Besides, their king says he would bet they're rapists and drug addicts. \"A boy who dotes on numbers, like a girl\u00a0who plays with guns, just cannot be familiar with the way this country runs.\" And so his people wait outside,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":634,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=634","url_meta":{"origin":2447,"position":5},"title":"Cyberspace Heaters","author":"Rick Young","date":"December 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a shame computer games contain so many guns. Now aliens can shoot down dreams, agnostics hunt for nuns. Lucky kids who kill enough ascend to level three. 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