a fine suggestion

a woman at work
keeps telling me that
i'm going to hell
because i fib,
curse,
tell bawdy jokes,
drink alcohol,
and am an
all-around irreverent
person.

yesterday
i told her that
i believe in
no such place as a hell
and since she is
so pre-occupied by it
why doesn't she just
go there herself.

she told me i
could go fuck myself.

this is the
only intelligent thing
she's ever
said to
me.

-published in Nerve Cowboy #12