Poetry by Gale Acuff
to Heaven and in the Bible there’s some
guy who went to Heaven but he was still
alive, I forget his name, I’m only
ten years old, barely old enough to re
-member anything but anyway I
want to do that, too, go to Heaven or
for that matter Hell but just enough
to have a look and size those places up
and then return to Earth and maybe tell
all the people what I saw in either
spot and maybe even (if I need cash
flow) sell that information–at a fair
price–and return early and pray that when
I die for real they’ll get their money back.
Gale Acuff, who holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Texas Tech University, has published hundreds of poems in over a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine, where he currently teaches at Arab American University.
