.R. Campbell
Nothing, Now
A rich man who had been born poor
Died and stood at the River Styx
In the Land of the Lost.
Squinting across, he asked Charon,
How much will this cost?
With oar groaning across the prow,
The boatman answered,
Nothing, now.
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J.R. "Bob" Campbell
grew up working in his father's blacksmith shop in Amherst, Texas, and
took a B.A. in English at West Texas A&M University in Canyon in
1970. He has been a reporter and editor at nine newspapers in Texas and
Colorado and is now covering courts and state and national politics at
the Midland Reporter-Telegram. In the past year he has had poetry in Ancient Heart, Poetry Life and Times, Prism Quarterly, Decanto, TPQ Online and Falling Star. email: J.R. Campbell
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