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Story in the newest Another Chicago Magazine

I have a story in the newest Another Chicago Magazine which is on sale at bookstores and available on line.  Just follow the link.

Drunk Poem Reading at the Berghoff, Saturday. AWP off site reading. Free.

I will be reading a poem by Nelson Algren for the Lost Chicago Drinking Poems reading at the Berghoff at 17 W. Adams.  The show is being put on by Chicago Detours and it is free. Show starts at 6:15 and will be done before 8.  The show features Mandy Keiftetz, Douglas Light,  Sophie Grimes, Amy Ganser, Hannah Pittard and Elizabeth Tieri.  

 http://www.chicagodetours.com/

True Manliness 
The Ray’s Tap Reading Series returns at Rhino Fest 2012 
Featuring the talents of 
Matt Test
Margaret Chapman
Scott Whitehair
Dave Snyder
Daniel Shapiro
Kristin Leucke
Kyle Beachy
Lindsay Hunter
Ian Belknap
Tim Racine
Chris Bower
Kristin Lueke
Natalie Edwards
Mason Johnson
and Robbie Q. Telfer. 
Join us.  Show is at 11 PM on January 14th at 11 PM.  Prop Thtr  3502 N. Elston.  All shows at Rhino or 15 bucks or pay-what-you-can
Poster by the amazing Susie Kirkwood   Check out her work at susiekirkwood.com

True Manliness 

The Ray’s Tap Reading Series returns at Rhino Fest 2012 

Featuring the talents of 

Matt Test

Margaret Chapman

Scott Whitehair

Dave Snyder

Daniel Shapiro

Kristin Leucke

Kyle Beachy

Lindsay Hunter

Ian Belknap

Tim Racine

Chris Bower

Kristin Lueke

Natalie Edwards

Mason Johnson

and Robbie Q. Telfer. 

Join us.  Show is at 11 PM on January 14th at 11 PM.  Prop Thtr  3502 N. Elston.  All shows at Rhino or 15 bucks or pay-what-you-can

Poster by the amazing Susie Kirkwood   Check out her work at susiekirkwood.com

Imaginary Birds at the Ray’s Tap Reading Series
August 12th at 8 PM
3047 N. Kimball
Might be the last show of all time.
Featuring, Matt Rowan, Mark Chrisler, Natalie Edwards, Matt Test, Daniel Shapiro, Brian Nemtusak, Jayita Bhattacharya, Jacob Knabb, Mason Johnson, Dave Snyder, Scott Whitehair, Troy Murphy and even some work from the out of town Tim Racine.
Poster by Susie Kirkwood

Imaginary Birds at the Ray’s Tap Reading Series

August 12th at 8 PM

3047 N. Kimball

Might be the last show of all time.

Featuring, Matt Rowan, Mark Chrisler, Natalie Edwards, Matt Test, Daniel Shapiro, Brian Nemtusak, Jayita Bhattacharya, Jacob Knabb, Mason Johnson, Dave Snyder, Scott Whitehair, Troy Murphy and even some work from the out of town Tim Racine.

Poster by Susie Kirkwood


The next Ray’s will be Imaginary Birds.  August 12th, 9 PM at Ray’s.  More information to come soon.

The next Ray’s will be Imaginary Birds.  August 12th, 9 PM at Ray’s.  More information to come soon.

Memorio’s Day by RFK

My butler’s name was Robert

He came before me

and preferred to be called Robert

When I decided that I preferred to be called Robert

and not Bobby

the family disagreed

Rose and Papa Joe

had long ago decided

that the servants working in our home

were to be addressed by their first names

something that caused a bit of a scandal

in the neighborhood

but was accepted because

Papa Joe was not a man easily disagreed with

I disagreed with this decision

and felt that I, as a young boy

who was a part of the family Robert

was working for,

should have a choice

in what I was called

All they did,

was use the logic of the garden playhouse

and say

“He was first”

Robert became my butler when Joe Jr went to war

and was in no need of a butler

though his letters home

might indicate otherwise

Robert’s main duty was to dress me

He had not been used to dressing Joe Jr

for he was in his twenties

and had been dressing himself

since he was 6,

only needing help with ties and cuffs etc

I told Robert that his job required him

to dress me for the next day

while I slept

Robert objected

but my family disagreed

Robert argued that I would not be clean

and would need a bath before dressing

but I said Robert would bathe me in the evening

every evening

and if there were dirty parts in the morning

they could be taken care after I woke up

dressed

My family agreed

and Robert knew it was best not to disagree again

Robert would come to my room

an hour before my scheduled time to rise

and would undress me from my sleeping clothes

and dress me while I slept

It became my game to stop paying attention to calendars

or to the words people said to me about the next day’s events

I would wake up, yawn, stretch out my arms, open my little eyes

and look down at my clothes

If I was in school clothes, I knew I had school ahead

If it was church clothes, I knew church was ahead

If it was happy church clothes, I knew marriage was ahead

If it was sad church clothes, I knew a funeral was ahead

If it was semi-formal church clothes, I knew it was a holiday

One morning in late May

I woke up cranky, swatting at Robert

who was shining my cuff links

He looked so unhappy

“Robert”, I asked,” Is it a holiday?”

“Yes, Bobby”,

“Which one”, I asked

“It’s Memorial’s Day Bobby”

Robert had a habit of pluralizing almost everything

in a complicated and nonsensical manner

When we would be sitting around waiting for snacks

He would say, “The cakes are in the ovens boys”

and in our heads

we would imagine dozens of cakes

dozens of plates

and when only one would come out

one big enough for a wedding party

the four of us would be upset

at the lack of multiple everything

and eat our cake quietly

mourning the loss of the plural

At the time of this poem

the family doctors

had diagnosed me

with what they called

Sloppy Mouth Syndrome

and the problem with having Sloppy Mouth Syndrome

is that often parts of words

come out sloppy

and some come out just right

so I often made sense but not a lot of sense

It was said that I could also have had

Sloppy Ear Syndrome

in that I could only hear parts of words correctly

but the blood tests were inconclusive

When Robert told me it was Memorial’s Day

I either misspoke or misheard it Memorio’s Day

and asked, “Who is Memorio?”

Robert, always a fan of mythology proceeded to tell me

that Memorio was the God of Happy Memories

and in the end of May, on a Monday

we celebrate his legacy

All bad memories, he explained

were to be not cast aside but to be remembered

as happy moments

not sad ones

I was grumpy when I woke

but happy to hear of this wonderful holiday

The family was preparing a picnic outside

and as Robert was cleaning my dirty parts,

I came up with a song

and sang it

as I was being cleaned

Robert said I should perform it

for the family

and I agreed

There were a lot of friends and family

sitting in white chair on the lawn

A lot of the men were in uniform

I thought they must be remembering today

how wonderful it was to be in battles

fighting hand to hand to the death

flying planes into black clouds

and all the women were in blue and red

and they must have been remembering today

how wonderful it was to be alone and worried

I asked Papa Joe if I could sing a song

to help celebrate Memorio’s Day

“Ok Bobby”, he said

but it’s pronounced Memorial Day

This is the song I sang

It’s time to forget all your troubles,

all those troubles are smiling now

It’s Memorio’s Day!

Nothing to be sad about

not about what you were sad about

It’s Memorio’s Day

If they died, if they were sad

all those things never happened, today

you don’t have time to wait because

it’s Memorio’s Day

Nothing bad has ever happened!

not today!

because It’s Memorio’s Day!’

Forget all your troubles!

Forget all your troubles

It’s Memorio’s Day

Robert resigned

in a letter

and left it on my bed

which had been left unmade

before I performed

He was not there

for anyone to question his decision,

to disagree

My new butler’s name was Eric

I didn’t require him to dress me

or bathe me

though after a few weeks of seeing me dress myself

my family disagreed

I asked if I could change my name to Eric

and have Eric be called Bobby

I was hoping to confuse everyone

and end up having them say

Let’s call you Robert

but they did not take to it

and Bobby I remained


Disgusting Sex Acts List from Ray’s Show 3/4/11


List of the Most Disgusting Sexual Positions and Sex Acts
by the writers of the Ray’s Tap Reading Series for the Anti-Erotic/Sex-Negative/Anti Natal Extravaganza

1. Home-Made Taco Salad
2. Flooding the Engine
3. Inside out Strawberry
4.  Breaking the Vagina Bank
5.  Splitting Hairs
6.  Face the Nation
7.  Egg Face
8. Human Rain
9.  Let’s Turn Our Bodies Into Ships With Passengers
10.  Big and Small
11.  Human Train Derailment
12.  Let’s Put an Ax in That
13.  French Kissing
14.  Liquid Pat Down
15.  Self Induced Sauna
16.  Fun With Detached Fingers
17.  Organic Stripper Pole
18.  The Snow Plow
19.  Dump Truck Disaster
20.  Elegant Feather Play
21.  Vintage Mud Trap
22.  Penis Meet Razor
23.  Ball Drag
24.  Weather Vain in the ass on the roof role play
25.  Talking About Sex During Sex
26.  Reverse Cowboy (gravity not an issue)
27.  The Vagina’s Edge
28.  What do you do when your cock and balls are detached and end up in your face in a plastic bag?  
29. Missionary.  (I know at least that one seems ordinary, but think about the history, the impact those slow gentle christian fucks had on those cultures in the end.) 
30. Blumpkin
31. Poo-plate special
32. The Challenger Explosion
33. The Bratwurst Burst
34. Ring Around the Weiny
35. Clam Bake
36. Open-Faced Meatloaf Sandwich
37. Spalunking
38. The French Poodler
40. Lollie Popping
41. Chinese Pizza
42. Lobster Bisque
43. Homo Tornado (for straights only)
44. Black-on-black Crime
45. The Dick Van Dyke
46. The Dick Van Fag
47.  The Old Testament
48.  The “Just-Like-In-That-Porn”
49.  The Feltch Prince of Bel-Air
50.  Soccer
51.  Genital Holocaust
52.  The Blame Game
53.  Tonsil Hockey
54.  Ovary Badminton
55.  Easy Bake Oven
56.  The Cliffs of Dover
57.  Blanket of Dead Dutch Oven Malfunction l
58.  Pubes in a Blanket
59. The Salted Nut Log
60.  Farmer and Field
61.  The Removable Clitoris
62.  Sexy Autism
63.  Latex Allergy Fetish Play
63. Oh Fuck!
64. Deep, Deep Hand Holding
65. Duck And Cover
66. The Wailing Wall
67. Sexual Congress
68. Charge on Delivery
69. 69
70. The “Do You Like That?”
71. The “Do You Like That, Baby?”
72.  The LeBron James
73.  The Reverse-Abortion (Where we put a baby you don’t want inside you, sexually) 
74.  The Cape Cod (If you are a girl and not a Kennedy, you die at the end of this one)
75.  The Cum filled baked potato at Chief O’Neils.  Don’t order it. 
76.  Human Ashtray with benefits
77.  Let’s Trade Blood (An “erotic” card game that should be avoided.)
78.  Snow Shoveling.  ( I am sure you are all familar with the other terms related to this one, but this is far worse and involves an actual shovel.”)
79.  Roleplay Sex where one person pretends to be the film Shoah and  the other is The Sorrow and the Pity. If you want to add a third party, they can choose from the plethora of Police Academy movies, expect for the first one. 
80.  The Corned Beef Blowjob.
81.  The  Jon Stewart (Where you get pissed on, shat on and then are told that you are really smart and then pissed on again, with a bloody piss from a dying man who has kidney problems that also tells you that you are really smart.)
82.  Green Line Anal Express
83. The  Broken Bulb.  (This is where you fuck your partner so hard their eye pops out and then you try and make it work again by fucking them harder.)
84. The Idi Amin
85.  The Gulag Experience
86.  Sorrow (This is a sexual arrangement where both parties cry separately and slowly come together to fuck while trying to out sob each other.)
87.  Home-Made Ranch Dressing
88.  Red Lobster (This is when white people pretend they are black)
89. Ear Fuck
90.  Pick a Fold and Fuck it Violently
91.  Egg  Toss
92.  Shaking Your Sexual Baby Syndrome
93.  Nude Gravel Angels
94.  Pop that Nut Sack
95.  Astronaut Ice cream 
96.  Lets Pretend We Are Out of Oxygen For Real
97.  Taco Salad
98. Blanket of Dead Dutch Oven Malfunction 2
99.  Twat-co Salad
100.  Sparkely Cunt 
101.  Penis Sewage Pump
102. 69/11
103. The Swallowcaust
104. The Trail of Tears (of Poon)
105.  Tears of a Mortally Wounded Clown
Feel free to add more in the comment page.

Ray’s Tap Reading Series Poster #1 for The Anti-Erotic/Sex-Negative/Anti-Natal Extravaganza on March 4th at 9 PM. 

Poster by Susie Kirkwood

Ray’s Tap Reading Series Poster #1 for The Anti-Erotic/Sex-Negative/Anti-Natal Extravaganza on March 4th at 9 PM. 

Poster by Susie Kirkwood

Ray’s Tap 3/4/11  9 PM

Poster by Susie Kirkwood

Ray’s Tap 3/4/11  9 PM

Poster by Susie Kirkwood

New Ray’s Reading March 4th at 9 PM

The theme for the show is The Anti-Erotic/Sex-Negative/Anti-Natal Extravaganza!!!!!!

Poster and more information to come soon.