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Friday, October 12, 2007

Poetry Friday: Spam Poem

I don’t have time for a full-on post today, but I remembered this little “found poem” I created recently from a particular collection of email titles in my bulk message folder. When I saw the headers, they looked like poetry. Odd poetry, but poetry none the less.
Spam Poem

Information, Publication
Secure Registration
Instruction, Warning
[none]
[none]

Check out My
Never Thought I
Can’t Believe She
But It Makes Me

This Decision
Should Not
Be Made Lightly
But May Be Necessary

Returns Control
Message Processed
All girls like the big guys
[none]
[none]
For more traditional poems, head over to the Poetry Friday round-up over at Two Writing Teachers.

9 comments:

  1. I like this poem! Reminds me of a letter I once got from a Nigerian Businessman in need of my urgent assistance!

    Andrea Beaty
    www.ThreeSillyChicks.com
    www.andreabeaty.com

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  2. Ha! Love it. And I never thought I'd say that about spam.

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  3. This is funny! You are really good at finding poems everywhere.

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  4. Who ever thought spam could be so fun?

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  5. What a great recycling idea!

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  6. Totally awesome -- that repetition of "[none]/[none]" is a framing stroke of poetic genius.

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  7. Clearly, the rewards go to the one paying closest attention to life!

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  8. And here I thought it was going to be a poem about the 'food', Spam!
    Having just worn my Spam Jam t-shirt the other day (Friday, I think!) I guess I had that on my mind. Whichever spam, your poem was fun. Rhyme on!
    http://www.spamjamhawaii.com/

    Roses are red
    Spam is pink
    MotherReader rocks,
    don't you think?

    (I might have to copyright that)

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