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spam subjects poem

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!]

9 Comments

  1. JohnS

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

    Posted on 13-Mar-07 at 04:23 | Permalink
  2. j david

    brilliant!!!

    /gives H the award for best spam recipe

    Posted on 13-Mar-07 at 09:26 | Permalink
  3. Was the subject the springboard for the poem or did they mail you that all readymade?

    Posted on 13-Mar-07 at 18:32 | Permalink
  4. 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.

    Posted on 14-Mar-07 at 11:23 | Permalink
  5. Hello I am a Nigerian Banker
    selling Cheap viagra
    congratulations you win
    This is not spam

    Posted on 14-Mar-07 at 21:56 | Permalink
  6. 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?

    Posted on 17-Mar-07 at 07:16 | Permalink
  7. Well constructed; we could all make spam poems!

    Posted on 18-Mar-07 at 08:52 | Permalink
  8. oh wow! this is so funny and cool. i will have to try it…

    Posted on 21-Mar-07 at 20:23 | Permalink
  9. I have actually blogged about something like this. small blogosphere!

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

    Posted on 06-Apr-07 at 12:18 | Permalink

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