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After Sunday School today I watch my teacher
through the plastic-glass door of our trailer
-classroom, she's alone with Jesus now in
our double-wide without any wheels or
wheels within wheels which Ezekiel saw
and once in Sunday School I slipped and spoke
Zeke when
I meant his Christian name--I mean
his first name, anyway--and Miss Hooker's
eyes went round like baby-moon hubcaps and
I saw myself in 'em even though I
was at the very back of the classroom
and her mouth made the kind of O that means
you gnashed a sour pickle or lemon twist
so I spoke up Ezekeiel is what
I mean and
she said It's who as well. Good.
When folks die it's Heaven or Hell they say
in Sunday School to us ten-year-olds but
I guess I'll only know if they're right when
I die myself or is that I myself
die and
I wish I could but of course I
don't mean suicide or even killing
myself but just dying long enough to
catch a fairly decent glimpse of what's to
come, come the Afterlife--angels, demons,
harps, and pitchforks and so on--but I wish
I didn't have to die at all, just get
to hang here on Earth forever because
when I asked my Sunday School teacher if
I'll find corn dogs in Heaven she laughed but
then she started crying. Is that Maybe?
Gale Acuff, Jenin, Zababdeh, Palesti