spam subjects poem

// March 12th, 2007 // Writing

She will love you more than any other man –
just talked to him.
The narcotic analgesics are very similar.

Separate yourself from other men.
Anthony Hopkins
is so familiar.

Are there any precautions and side-effects?

Didn’t understand it;
can’t be a lover anymore.
These girls are all alone.

What did we do to make it happen?

[Addendum: I apologize for not explaining how these are constructed. I go into my spam folder and read through as many subject lines as I can take (roughly 500-1000), choose the ones I find most intriguing, then use each one as a discrete line of the poem, only adding punctuation and line breaks. Try it for yourself. It's fun!]

11 Responses to “spam subjects poem”

  1. the jof » Spam Content Poem says:
    13 March 2007 at 02:46

    [...] by: this, I dig into my boundless spam box and picked one at [...]

  2. JohnS says:
    13 March 2007 at 04:23

    I get some of those spam subjects, too. :(

  3. j david says:
    13 March 2007 at 09:26

    brilliant!!!

    /gives H the award for best spam recipe

  4. mice says:
    13 March 2007 at 18:32

    Was the subject the springboard for the poem or did they mail you that all readymade?

  5. stubsy says:
    14 March 2007 at 11:23

    I think we must be on the same spamming lists, do you get those ones where they have copied a verse out of a book or something totally of topic.

    Then at the bottom theres a link to buy viagra.

  6. David Levasseur says:
    14 March 2007 at 21:56

    Hello I am a Nigerian Banker
    selling Cheap viagra
    congratulations you win
    This is not spam

  7. Poedhz says:
    17 March 2007 at 07:16

    You must have taken a plenty of time to read through all of them. Brilliant indeed.

    I wonder, though, how Anthony Hopkins can be thrown in the mix?

  8. Spam subjects poem | [pu2]: the simpler story says:
    17 March 2007 at 07:36

    [...] many varieties of spam mail that someone managed to create a poem out of the subject lines. LINK: spam subjects poem via [...]

  9. Jean-Luc Picard says:
    18 March 2007 at 08:52

    Well constructed; we could all make spam poems!

  10. son dao says:
    21 March 2007 at 20:23

    oh wow! this is so funny and cool. i will have to try it…

  11. zenny says:
    6 April 2007 at 12:18

    I have actually blogged about something like this. small blogosphere!

    Zenny
    name not associated with your cat (amazing coincidence!)