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I Want to Go to Hell When I Die by Gale Acuff

to have a look at the Devil in real
life, face-to-face anyway, and then I want
to go to Heaven, it will be a test
for me to see if up in Paradise
he'll be in my mind forever and if
so how it will affect me when I play
the harp or sing hymns or fly around up
there, and the opposite is true, too, if
I go to Hell I want to have Heaven
enough in my mind, soul anyway, to
take down with me to Hell and help me out
-last all the punishment I've got coming.
I'll remember, say, the Pearly Gates and
how they swing back and forth but still one way.

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gale

Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and is the author of three books of poetry. He has taught university English in the US, China, and Palestine.