Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Published September 5th, 2011 | 
Actually, Alice never lived here . . .
Nonetheless, for the past couple days I been receiving emails from some guy spamming me with messages intended for the Alice Blue Review. How these messages are finding their way to my inbox I have no idea (anymore than I can fathom why messages that are intended for me occasionally don’t arrive at all). What is clear is this guy named Louis Marvin is intent on getting ABR’s poetry editor, Amber Nelson, to visit his website where he has posted some poems.
Forget about the fact that poetry editors almost never accept work posted on a personal website (I say, “almost never” because I have, on a few occasions, published poetry first posted to a personal website. However, those poets were writers I’d previously published whose work I liked) — no, what is truly strange is the email message itself:
if you google: Louis Marvin Poems
writings that are from today to recent pasts come up from poems, editorials and prose stuffs.
another great day in hawaii!
fish and turtles are fed, plants watered, child tutored, and my teeth cleaned at kahala mall! listen to YES sometime and you lose your mean bones!
Right now, I’m wondering if I should forward this message to Amber Nelson.
09/06/2011*Note: “Louis Marvin” contacted me to let me know that his spam mail was an “accident.” He claimed that it was only intended as a private message for a few friends. Not sure I buy that. What kind of mail program is he using that he can accidentally send bulk email like that? And how did I end up on that contact list since I don’t even know the dude?
