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Rick Campbell: What I Might Want Today
“I suppose I would like more beauty” Kristen B, (of a poetry manuscript) Yes, that and more freedom, love, wisdom, generosity. More fish when I fish. More runs for the Pirates, less for the other team, More luck for my friends. More discipline for me. Perhaps, in its way, more beauty would accomplish all of this. Beauty, as in elegance, grace-- there’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes/ Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose. All of this being, as they say, in the eye of the beholder. If I lived dedicated to the pursuit of beauty what old roads would I walk, how parallel the roads to truth? Could I get there from here, in this little poem? Yes, because nothing is given?
Rick Campbell is a poet and essayist living on Alligator Point, Florida. His latest collections of poems are Gunshot, Peacock, Dog. (Madville Publishing, 2018) and Provenance (Blue Horse, 2020).
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And my reviewer would like fewer deaths?
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The Sam Stone reference is the part that got me. Thanks Rick (and Mike for sharing it.)
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Thank you. I loved the “Yes” (and its own qualifying question?).
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