any time they say at Sunday School so I do my best to wake up dead but not surprised, maybe that's what they mean, that's what I'd mean but I don't make the rules or may -be I should but then I'm not God but I'd try to be without being too proud and sometimes I think God is, too proud that is--He's not equal enough to folks, He's up there and we're down here and I said so to my Sunday School teacher but she said No, Gale, God is everywhere and knows everything so I said Yes ma'am, I'll bet that He's proud of it, too, which shut her up and me as well. So now God knows the score.
--Gale Acuff
Gale has poetry published in Ascent, Reed, Poet Lore, Chiron Review, Cardiff Review, Poem, Adirondack Review, Florida Review, Slant, Nebo, Arkansas Review, South Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, and many other journals in a dozen countries. He has authored three books of poetry: Buffalo Nickel, The Weight of the World, and The Story of My Lives. He has taught university English courses in the US, China, and Palestine.