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I hate everybody but I'm only
- solidfoodpress
- May 8
- 1 min read
by Gale Acuff
ten years old, not old enough to know how
to hate at least in my case, I go to
church and Sunday School religiously so
I wind up forgiving everybody
whether they’ve hurt me or nix and it’s not
usually that they have, at least not
directly, except for that one fight on
the playground with my best friend in first grade
and he won or I lost or I let him
win which is sometimes easier itself
than winning since you can know how you’ll fight
again even if you know and he knows
you’ll lose, it’s kind of like sacrifice, you
sort of die for his sins. Man, he hates that.
Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. His poems have appeared in Ascent, Reed, Arkansas Review, Poem, Slant, Aethlon, Florida Review, South Carolina Review, Carolina Quarterly, Roanoke Danse Macabre, Ohio Journal, Sou'wester, South Dakota Review, North Dakota Quarterly, New Texas, Midwest Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Adirondack Review, Worcester Review, Adirondack Review, Connecticut River Review, and many other journals. Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.