News-Antique.com - Nov 30,-0001 - Spam Poetry Contest
As someone who hates waste and has a nature that always tries to make use of things that others throw away, I found myself one day thinking of Spam emails. Now if there is anything more worthless than unwanted annoying messages that clog up computers and make it hard to get legitimate mail from friends and family, I would like to know what that might be! However, after looking at so many notes hawking every manner of insurance promotions, various credit card plans, travel schemes, all kinds of weird merchandise and every known sexual aide, I started looking at the subject messages and oddly found a kind of poetry in some of them, especially the ones from foreign countries that use computer language translations to convey their messages. It was intriguing to see the way a computer would change and adapt a message from various cultures written in different languages and then spew them out in my emails as indecipherable text... but interesting indecipherable text. I began saving the ones that had the most appeal and combining them with others to make a kind of odd beat generation non-rhyming poetry.
The following is one made from unmodified subject lines in Spam emails.
As type in Noel seize
Bring the merchant replay
A sign on agonize guest house
Celine Dion is in my head!
He dance as elemental
Guide to women contractors
Or believe so pasting marinate
Is turn on go scruff?
Of dance to salvage composer
The turnoff go curtsy movable
Be change as appreciate walk
For translate go vinous.
Are fly so allegedly
You spell be craze
He type on orient duffer
You can get laid today...midshipmen!
Perhaps it takes an odd mind like mine to appreciate this stuff but since we get it anyway, I say we might as well have some fun with it!
Make other poems from Spam email subject lines without modifying them, send them to me and the best one will get a $20.00 gift certificate from my online store at:
http://www.tias.com/stores/bothellj/
Send your submissions online to:
bothellj.wa@netzero.net
or send by mail to:
Rachman Cantrell, Owner
Bothell Jewelers & Collectibles
10130 Main St.
Bothell, Wa. 98011
