Jerry Ratch

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Osiris Kept walking along the edge of the highway. I was looking for a way to earn a living. The soldiers were rushing past me, and the priests. They were looking for tomb robbers, and I was one. I was one. I was one.

Selected Works Novel Wild Dreams of Reality A story of Love, Obsession, and Liberation. Poetry Chairman Sequence of poems about Chairman Mao, written from Chinese posters. Puppet X Long 65 page sequence by a Puppet without a name, thus the "X" of its generation Osiris Sequence of poems, based on Egyptian theme Hot Weather: Poems Selected and New Poems from Selected Books, up to 1982 Chaucer Marginalia Experimental language poems Light Poems mostly based on paintings Poetry, gift book Homeowner Haikus Humorous haikus about homeownership prose poems Lenin's Paintings A sequence of poems by a narrator who's been told to appraise paintings by V. Lenin, though he didn't know Lenin painted. Unpublished Memoir A Body Divided: a memoir about growing up with Polio. Available unpublished manuscript Quick Links Authors Guild E-mail me

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