Judgment

By Virginia L. Rudder / December 1, 1976

This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 4 No. 4, "Generations: Women in the South." Find more from that issue here.

“If you tell a lie, you’ll never go to heaven.”

-A grandmother’s warning

 

When I die,

I certainly hope

I shan’t have to go to heaven,

Because it would be

Dreadfully lonely

Up there

With nobody

But God

And George Washington

And me.

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