semantikon.com presents Seven Works from Nov 2005 Feature Jeff Crouch

Nov. 2005
Jeff Crouch

1. Adhere

2.Front Company

3. Footage of Her in a
Flight Abandoned

4. Karl Fuchs’s Car
and Two Hitchhikers

5. When Humpty
Dumpty Asks,

6. Ode to Kurt Vonnegut

7. Plato for Paranoids:
A Production of
the Absolute

Jeff Crouch is a writer and amateur artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. He plays at art as though it were a game of hide and go seek. His writing has recently appeared in Above Ground Testing, The Dream People, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Underground Window with more forthcoming works to be published in semantikon and Lunatic Chameleon.

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jeff crouch, texas, poems, poetry

Ode to Kurt Vonnegut

Empire plays a piano in the dust of an official room—
The maudlin violin, cigarette ash, ancient tomb,
Cheap napkins, plastic flowers, that sort of décor.
Unknown, anonymous, time’s prisoner.

Insane, inane, someone to blame—just talk.
And greedy genius wants to fuck her again,
Not unlike the incarcerated Alton Darwin
In Hocus Pocus, Hocus Pocus, Rod McKuen?

The official list, Mother Night, a knock—
Don’t answer, the cynic, knock, knock;
You came to the University to study Kant,
But Cat’s Cradle made you knot.