A Quiet Root

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“Nobody wants to die, not even those” by Gale Acuff

so after Sunday School when we
and God and Jesus and the Holy Ghost
were all alone in the classroom I asked
her if she herself wanted to be snuffed

Read it in Scapegoat Review

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