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I don't want to die not that I am though
Gale Acuff
everybody is, some folks faster than
others and I'm only ten years old, I
could live a mighty long time, 100,
even 45 would be good, it's old
to me anyway but anyway death
is a mystery that isn't, quite--at
church and Sunday School it's the subject of
discussion, it and being neighborly
and the Ten Commandments and the Sermon
on the Mount with the Beatitudes and
most of all the Resurrection and with
-out death where would the Resurrection be
I asked my Sunday School teacher, who first
chuckled, then started to cry. There you are.
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in fourteen countries and has authored three books of poetry. Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.
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