I don't want to die, I want to go home
to Heaven, that is, to see my Maker,
if there is one but I don't want
to go if I have to die to go, which
is what they swear at church and Sunday School
is the way things are, how they have to be
unless I catch a miracle but those
are pretty damn rare, I'm told, though without
the damn in the telling even if at
church service our preacher says it a lot,
damn, and Hell, too, but when I complained to
my Sunday School teacher she just laughed and
said, “But he doesn’t mean them as curse-words”
so I said “Then tell me again why I
must die to see God.” “Run on home,” she said.
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