Poetry Meets Real Life

The lead-in description is so eloquent.

I was in my house... in North Carolina. It was fall...I heard the rhythm of someone walking on the leaves and they came to my door.

And then it turns all Joe Biden-esque.

And somebody actually turned the knob. So I said, "Stand back! Stand four feet back because I'm going to shoot now!" Boom! Boom! The police came by and said, 'Ms. Angelou, the shots came from inside the house.' I said, 'Well, I don't know how that happened.'

Who would have thought Maya Angelou had it in her?
Go read it.