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!]

About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

Posted on 12 Mar 2007 in Writing

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  • JohnS

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

  • j david

    brilliant!!!

    /gives H the award for best spam recipe

  • http://miceland.com mice

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

  • http://financial-independence.net stubsy

    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.

  • http://plusultrapics.blogspot.com David Levasseur

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

  • http://www.putu.info Poedhz

    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?

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  • http://jlpicard.blogspot.com/ Jean-Luc Picard

    Well constructed; we could all make spam poems!

  • http://itwillpassreally.blogspot.com son dao

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

  • http://blogtopicz.com zenny

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

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