{"id":66009,"date":"2024-09-08T19:19:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T19:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=66009"},"modified":"2024-09-08T19:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T19:19:04","slug":"someday-ill-be-dead-and-as-for-pizza-by-gale-acuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/someday-ill-be-dead-and-as-for-pizza-by-gale-acuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Someday I’ll be dead and as for pizza by Gale Acuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Someday<\/h2>\n

Someday I’ll be dead and as for pizza <\/span><\/h2>\n

by Gale Acuff<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Someday I’ll be dead and as for pizza
\nand tacos and popcorn and Sugar Smacks
\nthere won’t be any, in Heaven nor Hell,
\nbut only on Earth, if I understand
\nmy Afterlife correctly, and I told
\nmy Sunday School teacher so but she laughed
\nand said that I won’t have to fret about
\nfood when I’m expired but I told her that
\nif I couldn’t eat and drink and even
\nburp then I’d rather stay alive but she
\nfrowned and said No, Dear, that’s impossible,
\nthose are all things of the flesh but your soul’s what’s
\nmost important–have you forgotten “Man
\ndoes not live by bread alone”? so I asked
\nDoesn’t that just mean when I’m alive?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gale Acuff has had hundreds of poems published in a dozen countries and has authored three books of poetry. His poems have appeared in <\/span>Ascent<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Reed, Arkansas Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Poem<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Slant<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Aethlon<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Florida Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> South Carolina Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Carolina Quarterl<\/span><\/i>y, <\/span>Roanoke Danse Macabre<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Ohio Journal<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Sou’wester<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> South Dakota Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>North Dakota Quarterly<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>New Texas<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Midwest Quarterly<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Poetry Midwest<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Adirondack Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Worcester Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Adirondack Review, Connecticut River Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Delmarva Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Maryland Poetry Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Maryland Literary Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> George Washington Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Pennsylvania Literary Journal<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Ann Arbor Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Plainsongs<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Chiron Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>George Washington Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>McNeese Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Weber<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>War, Literature & the Arts, Poet Lore<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Able Muse<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> The Font<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Fine Lines, Teach.Write.<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Oracle<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Hamilton Stone Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Sequential Art Narrative in Education, Cardiff Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Tokyo Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Indian Review<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Muse India<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Bombay Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Westerly<\/span><\/i>, and many other journals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gale has taught tertiary English courses in the US, PR China, and Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t