Demise | Gale Acuff
‘If I died in Sunday School would I go
to Heaven or Hell?’ I asked my teacher,
Miss Hooker, after class today. She said
she needs to think and pray on it so I
said, ‘Yes ma'am, I understand, I don't know
either.’ So I guess I'll get my answer
next Sunday if I don't die before then
and if I do I may as well forget
I asked at all. All the same, I'll look down
on Miss Hooker from on high and see how
she takes the news of my demise, which means
death if you want to sound fancy and I
guess I do, being up there with God and
Jesus and the Holy Ghost and angels
and all the dead folks come back to life, their
souls I mean, in their new bodies, which we'll
get and I wonder what mine will be like
and that's my next question for Miss Hooker,
I'm only 10 but I'd like to be born
again up there as maybe 25,
her age down here on earth, and taller, too,
so when she expires and enters into
the Kingdom of Heaven she'll fall for me
and we'll get married, though she also says