Gale Acuff
I'll go to Hell when I die I tell my
Sunday School teacher but they'll never hold
me, I'll break out and make my way up to
Heaven and if they won't let me in or
I just plain don't like it then I'll escape
again and find my way down here to Earth
and try to blend in--after all I did
before, before I croaked that is and it's
possible that I'll be a ghost and no
one will ever see me anyway but
just dead folks in the Afterlife and God
and Jesus and the Holy Ghost so I
guess I'll get righteously lonely for my
own kind and me not even alive
but that's religion. It tells quite a tale.
Bio
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. His poems have appeared in Ascent, Reed, Arkansas Review, Poem, Slant, Aethlon, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Carolina Quarterly, Roanoke Review, Danse Macabre, Ohio Journal, Sou'wester, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New Texas, Midwest Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Adirondack Review, Worcester Review, Connecticut River Review, Delmarva Review, Maryland Literary Review, George Washington Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Ann Arbor Review, Plainsongs, Chiron Review, George Washington Review, McNeese Review, Weber, War, Literature & the Arts, Poet Lore, Able Muse, The Font, Fine Lines, Teach.Write., Oracle, Hamilton Stone Review, Sequential Art Narrative in Education, Cardiff Review, Tokyo Review, Indian Review, Muse India, Bombay Review, Westerly, and many other journals. Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.