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Monday, March 13, 2006

RATIO OF SORROW

A Media Guide


by Charles West


A missing
young attractive
white woman

is equal to,
or greater than:

the death of
two children
in your city,

a dozen people
in your state,

fifty people
in your country,

or ten thousand people
in the third world.


Charles West, a teacher and writer in central California has poetry, fiction, nonfiction in a variety of publications and on-line journals. His novel, The Sacred Disc, was published by Salvo Press in 2000. During the summer West acts with the Woodward Shakespeare Festival, Fresno's version of Shakespeare in the park.