Gale Acuff

I tell my Sunday School teacher after

class that I don't want to die but she says
that saying so is a sin, it's God's will
that we all die so that we can live for
-ever and I'm ready to cry but I
don't, I wonder if God or Satan stopped
the water but anyway someone said
that tears are like piss, only from your eyes
and I just happened to remember that
then I started to laugh and couldn't stop
'til my teacher shook me by my shoulders
and snapped me out of it and then I said
Thank you, ma'am and she answered
Any time--but never again, sternly
so I laughed again and that's religion.

I sin a lot so I'll go to Hell when

I die and I might die and at any time,
that's up to God even though it might seem
that the world's the one that kills me off but
if I kill myself that's automatic
Hell they say at Sunday School and when I
die I'll get to go to Heaven, Jesus
saves and all that but I can hardly wait
so I asked my Sunday School teacher to
kill me for me as a kind of favor
but she screamed when she heard me and her hands
flew up to cover her mouth but later
she had them on my shoulder, then my head,
to pray for my forgiveness, so I did,
forgive her that is. If that's what she meant.