Chicago Stories 1998

Chicago Stories 1998 is book 3 of my 13-book series "Complete Performance Work 1996-2004," a collection of all 400 slam poems, monologues, dialogues and stories I wrote in those years. You can click here to download a free copy of the entire book, including extensive biographical notes concerning each piece; or click on the links below to read the pieces online.

10 oh one this morning
Albuquerque
And this is the poem
Arkanon
Blue Velvet
Checkmate
Christmas story, 1998
Crush on musician #1710
deathwish
The dirty violent little things you have done to me (and the dirty violent little things you have yet to do)
Eleven thoughts that will get me a penny from Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Five short poems inspired by Shag
For Lisa Hemminger on the occasion of her 38th birthday
Getting in touch with my pain
Guggenheim
I wish I were a machine
Jason's Manifesto 4.15.98
Lance Burton died for your sins
Lewinsky
Margo says
My fourteenth day
My girlfriend (a found poem)
None of the above (a found poem)
Now that I don't have sex
Opera night
Poems I'd write for Nike if Nike ever asked me to write poems for them
The real, real, real, real world
Satisfaction remains (a found poem)
Take me out (to the ballgame)
Taking a lover
There oughta be a law
There's something about a girl in uniform
Untitled (suicide poem)
Wedding haiku (a found poem)
The wonderful thing about poets
You and I will never love again

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