These poems were initially shared at open-mic readings in bar rooms and coffee shops. The bulk of the work was written specifically for performance purposes. A few poems were written with publication in mind, but even those usually ended up being revised into spoken-word pieces in the end. Although initially intended for performance, most eventually found their way into the pages of various periodicals, chap books, and small-press anthologies. This thin volume represents a mere fraction of all the stories, microfictions, soliloquies, and vignettes produced between the mid 1970s and shortly after the turn of the 21st Century. These are the pieces that were written, read aloud, rewritten again and again. The proven crowd pleasers.