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I hate everybody but I'm only

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 theyve hurt me or nix and its 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 youll fight

again even if you know and he knows

youll lose, its 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 ReviewPoemSlantAethlonFlorida Review, South Carolina ReviewCarolina Quarterly, Roanoke Danse Macabre, Ohio Journal, Sou'wester, South Dakota ReviewNorth Dakota QuarterlyNew TexasMidwest QuarterlyPoetry MidwestAdirondack ReviewWorcester Review, Adirondack Review, Connecticut River Review, and many other journals. Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.

     


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