About Ol’ Shotgun

I’m a 29 year old ex-Naval Photographer, currently living in N.C. (I’ve been recently liberated from the armpit of Hell, A.K.A: Washington D.C.)  If you have any questions for me, or need to contact me, my email address is: shotgun (underscore) smith at (use the at symbol) hotmail dot com. And please, no autograph requests or marriage proposals.

“If you please, glorious lord,’ Gawain said to the King,

“I will turn from this table and stand by you there,

If I may do that without discourtesy,

And without displeasing my liege lady,

I would come to your counsel before your great court,

For I think it not proper, according to our customs,

For such a request to be put so high in your hall

That you feel moved to reply to it yourself

When so many of the bravest are about you on the bench.

There are no better warriors, I believe, under heaven,

No better bodies on earth, when the battle begins.

I am the weakest, I know, and the least wise,

And cling least to my life, if anyone wants the truth,

But as you are my uncle whom I live to praise

And your blood is the sole virtue in my body,

And since this affair is so foolish, it does not befit you.

I have asked this of you first, and beg you to grant it,

And if my request is improper, I ask this great court

not to blame me.”

All the court began whispering

And all thought the same:

Relieve the crowned King

And let Gawain have the game.