Gale Acuff

I don't want to die but I guess I will 

sooner or later and I'm for later
so that I'll live longer and can eat more
tacos and pizza and pretzels and ice
cream and chocolate and popcorn and corn dogs
and jerky and waffles other stuff
I'll miss if I'm dead but at Sunday School
they talk a lot about Heaven and if
you make the cut then you're happier than
a hog in slop and I guess that means that
gluttony is no vice up there but my
teacher said No, Gale, you're missing the point
but at the Korn Dawg King the soft-swirl cones
have a little loop at the very top
like a pigtail but it still makes a point.

Gale Acuff: I have had poetry published in Ascent, Reed, Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, The Font, Chiron Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Slant, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, and many other journals in a dozen countries. I have authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives.
I have taught university English courses in the US, China, and Palestine.