Chicago Stories 2000

Chicago Stories 2000 is book 5 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.


A day without caffeine
I didn't go to Prom
Jason Pettus is one bad motherfucker
King of the losers
The legend of the tower people
The man who masturbated without using his hands
Manifesto of the obvious
My name is Jason Pettus and I am not your ex-boyfriend
Open letter (Kathy)
Open letter (Katie)
Open letter (Mike)
Open letter (Theo)
A poem for Ellen, who in a moment of weakness asked for one
Tempe
Untitled (roommate story)
Untitled (time is a fucked-up concept)
Way of the drunken warrior
You fuck like Sleater-Kinney

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