Betrayal
6 min readMar 30, 2022
I was the featured poet at the Green Mill in Chicago. The Green Mill is a storied venue in poetry slam, and Marc Smith (so what!) is largely considered the creator of the poetry slam, so my getting to feature there was a big deal. As I was putting together my set, I came up with the idea of performing my first piece, Answer Me That, as if it just happened changing the location from its original Albuquerque to Uptown Chicago:
