by Gale Acuff
-day School teacher, who should know because she’s
25 which is closer by figures
to death than my 10 unless of course I
have an accident and die younger than
she does so I asked her how old I’ll be
when I’m dead, exactly, or will I freeze
so to speak at the age when I’m croaked, but
she said she wasn’t sure, I’ll discover
when it actually happens to me,
death that is, so I interrupted with
or I happen to it, which made her smile
but then she started to cry and that turned
into weeping, which is what crying is
in the Bible, and righteously. Goodness.
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in fourteen countries and has authored three books of poetry. He has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine