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What is Spam Poetry?

I get a lot of spam. I’m sure you guys do to. Anyway, this morning I was playing around with some of the spam emails in my inbox. Sort of like a magnetic poetry kit, I was cherry picking words and phrases just to see what I’d come up with. They call this “spam poetry.” Spam Poetry is a type of Found Poetry in which poetry is created using words and phrases from junk email messages. Here’s one of my lame efforts from this morning :

Beings Human

you can wake-up
american morning sunshine

say a morning prayer

eat all-american burgers,
barbecued chicken wings,
or cherry cream pies

get auto insurance online
quote shakespeare
midsummer night’s daily
dream decoder

save 20% on
no money down

go dancing with
the stars

you can do whatever
you want — it’s your call

but it’s guaranteed

cheap drugs & sex therapy
won’t save you

we’re all
completely fucked