Jerry Ratch

"Ratch seems to be working toward a new form for the long poem" - Robert Peters

"A Classic."

1.

I know you
ladies and gentlemen

We see the near future
through you

Your factual face
as you sit indoors

Youthless
In your ordinary chair

Mice run through their vision
Mice run through the plot
O la la
and memory
is a lot...

I, also
have memories

One afternoon
I was myself