by Gale Acuff
I want to go to Heaven when I die
to tell God and Jesus how full of it
they are, scheming up history that we
ordinary folks here on Earth never
made but the Father and the Son claim we did,
free will it’s called, I confess I’ve got some,
but not enough to choose to end the Cause
of it all and everything else I might
be leaving out out of ignorance or
stupidity or both but then again
God read minds better than Santa Claus so
He surely knows what I’ve been thinking and
think now and will think–Hell, He knows it all
just like He planned it. Let my people go
Mr. Acuff’s work has appeared in Ascent, Chiron Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Poem, Adirondack Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Florida Review, Slant, Nebo, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, and many other journals. He has authored three books of poetry, all from BrickHouse Press: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives.
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