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You’re fearsome

December 17, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

I have seen you eat eggs, and it’s a fearsome sight.
If I was an egg, and you looked in the window, I would start to cry. I wouldn’t have any legs, so I’d just rock back and forth, thin … Read on Macduff...

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Gripe

December 14, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

The absurdity of sports was really bothering him now.
The idea of rooting for this team or that team.
Some group of people wearing a costume
similar to a costume
he used to react favorably to
when he was young. … Read on Macduff...

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Citrus Lad

December 7, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

He’s walking around
like he’s just eaten an orange.
Always.
This gives him strength.

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A true story, garbled nigh the point of incoherence

December 6, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

My stomach doctor, who looks a lot like Elliott Gould — I mean, even more than I do.
Anyways. He’s someone you don’t want to startle you.
And he’s also. I mean.
For reasons I really don’t care to discuss.… Read on Macduff...

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Overheard tonight on NPR

December 4, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Guest: Studies have shown that two-thirds of what people buy, they weren’t planning on buying when they walked into the store.
Host: So you’re saying, if I go into a store to buy a pair of socks, I’m going to … Read on Macduff...

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Cruel (and Wordy) Open Mic Heckle #2

November 30, 2005 by Cecil Vortex
Please...
write what you know
but also:
    know something interesting.
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Yaniv’s Cruel Heckle

November 28, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

They’re telling shapeless stories
at the open mic
reading from travel diaries
picking up where they left off last week
and Yaniv wants to shout:
“Get a blog!”

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Just a wee fragment of a much larger and more substantive work

November 22, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Like “stinky”
in MadLibs,
she always delivered.

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To you

November 8, 2005 by Cecil Vortex
To you
who live
in states
that vote
today
I say:
Happy voting!
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only the blink

November 2, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

only the vertical blink-blink on the horizon
gives any sign of
all these emails
passing
in the blink-blink
night.

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