Find temporary relief
By suspending your belief
The tales grow longer
When the alcohol’s stronger
The storyteller’s a thief
The Rouletters took advantage of the wonderful ambient temperature for the traditional group photo.
In addition, they promoted poetry even more by holding poems in their hands.
The host, dressed as a cocktail waitress, carried pens, blank napkins, a woven basket and a cornucopia. For this month, everyone present had an opportunity to be a poet–a cocktail napkin poet, that is. Everyone wrote a title on a blank napkin and put it in the green basket. Then, they chose a different title from the green basket to develop into a poem. The poems went into the cornucopia.
Magic Jack ATX, who had previously stated that he’d never written a cocktail napkin tale, changed that status before the show! He spun a cautionary tale about drinking.
Birdman 313 read his pithy alcohol slogans.
Jaime Torres recited the most rambling cocktail napkin tale for a sober man.
Lila McCall recounted a spooky cowboy ghost story with a bar setting.
Daniel Davila, who told jokes using a Ronald Reagan accent, followed by his mother’s accent, settled on a good ol’ country boy accent when he told a tale that pulled the audience’s leg.
Teresa Y. Roberson shared her latest sex research during midnight drinks. Topic: what turned men off from performing cunnilingus.
Thom with his cocktail napkin tales medley crew of Magic Jack ATX and Daniel Davila retold how the original cocktail napkin poet innocently stumbled upon our venue among other drinking-inspired tales.
After the intermission, the lovely rouletter assistants, Daniel, Jack and Thom, read the spontaneous cocktail napkin poems that were created during the show.
Donna Dechen Birdwell, Sangye O’Mara and David each read a poem, inspired by one of Birdwell’s poems.
Kevin Velasco
Here are the 22 cocktail napkin pearls of wisdom poems:
