One day I'll die and be glad of it or

maybe not but anyway there I'll be,
nowhere that's a place and I won't come back
and at church and Sunday School it's Heaven
or Hell and they push Heaven but confess
that in either place I'll be eternal
so there's that but of course in Hell I might
suffer though in Heaven maybe it's just
a different sort of suffering, too much
of a good thing and all that, happines
that drives you crazy like prayer meetiing
on Wednesday night at our church--I believe
that most of my brothers and sisters are
out of their minds, speaking in tongues and all
and some even prophesying. Satan.

One day when I'm dead and burning in Hell

or maybe up in Heaven burning, too,
to be even closer to God or be
back down on Earth I'll figure out a way
to escape from wherever I'm dead at
and actually return to this life
that I'm not dead from yet, I'm only 10
and if reality doesn't inter
-fere then I might live to be 100
and the croak naturally but for all
I know I could die tomorrow and I
go to either Heaven or Hell but not
both, at least not at our church, at least
according to the crazy things we be
-lieve which aren't really true and that's the truth.

Everybody has to die sooner or

later and I like later at least in
my case but then again there's the waiting
and I don't like to, don't like to wait for
anything whether good or bad and bad
is even worse so if I die sooner
rather than later there's no more wait
-ing but then again if I never get
born then there's no waiting at all and no
anticipation and I'm not sure what
to call that but I guess I never will
have to, that will be God's problem, I'll be
off the hook, having never been born
and maybe Jesus won't be, either, and
no one led out of Eden. You're welcome.

 Gale Acuff, Jenin, Zababdeh, Palestine