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Nod to the low art
of spam poetry

Weaving verse from junk mail. No paste needed! 

By Toni Fitzgerald

    Unless you have somehow managed to outsmart the rest of us and found a spam filter that never misfires, unsolicited email is always in your mailbox. 
  Before deleting it, why not have some fun with it? 
  Join the internet's ultra hip. Craft poetry from it.
  Call it spam slam. 
   Bloggers like Kristin Thomas (http://www.sperare.com/spam_poetry/blogger.html) and Paulette and Lilia Adell (http://www.nonfamous.com/blog/archives/000203.html) in particular excel at turning gibberish into spam-based poetry.
   This isn't just for bloggers, though. It's for anyone with the patience to figure out what exactly that misspelled word in the subject line is supposed to mean.
   Here's how to begin. Gather up all your junk mail. Pull out choice wording from the subject line ("She'll love yur big onez"). Write a poem. 
   The only rule is that the poetry must be entirely spam-based. 
  Whether that means fishing through your junk email box for inspired writing in the spam itself or simply stealing and stringing subject lines is up to you. 
   Here are a few examples that Media Life composed from our junk mail. If you would like to contribute your own spam slams, send them to newmedia@medialifemagazine.com with the subject line "Spam poetry." We'll gladly print them in our letters section.

Get Body & Soul and a 5-piece Yoga gift set!
Stop collector Calls - Eliminate Your Debt.
Drop the weight for one low fee
Are these dates free?
Florida has Lee Homes
Get a new *FREE Cell Phone
Unwind with Soma, Eliminate your debt,
Berlin payment due, account Desperado qavphnqzxnjsmbt

******

Haiku
Tenth spam today says:
At last smart filtering tech-
nology that works

******

If You've Tried Everything and Still
Want to super-size
An interesting twist
Don't keep your old something
Get bigger breasts girls
For the holidays -- no pain
Only $10 for a great package
Surprise that special date
Your mate will be amazed
Passion should last Forever!

******

A letter for Santa:
Broke. Need cash fast.
To recover financial freedom.
Money gone at Easy Cash Casino,
Just one spin was all it took.
Kris Kringle, I was Naughty, not Nice
Have tried everything and still can't
Find cheap Holiday gift ideas.
Would take another job
Giving collagen injections.
(Want to look and feel younger?)
Before rates go up on

NASCAR Limited-Edition Holiday Gifts.
Last Chance: Escape the Bitterness.
Give the Gift that saves lives,
Want to feel like a Tiger.
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas.

******

Sold out in stores.
This silk on corrupt files
This shit on buying toner
Are now talking autopilot.


December 5, 2003© 2003 Media Life


- Toni Fitzgerald is a staff writer for Media Life.


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