
that’s good and I don’t mind, I sin a good
deal for ten years old though if I live long
enough I might live all my evil down
and get bailed out by Jesus, Who they say
died for my sins anyhow so maybe
I shouldn’t sweat it so much but then I
also hear that unless you really try
to be good but you sin you go to Hell
just as if Jesus never died at all
for any soul and the Resurrection’s
just hooey so I’m not sure what to be
-lieve, with something so significant as
my immortal soul on the line maybe
I should be worried. But today’s Friday.

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 Danse Macabre, Ohio Journal, Sou’wester, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New Texas, Midwest Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Adirondack Review, Worcester Review, Adirondack Review, Connecticut River Review, Delmarva Review, Maryland Poetry 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.
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