From The Ontological Museum


The Spam Poetry Game

In one of my nocturnal wandering of Yahoo, I came across the following group of spam poems, created from a game I participated in in May of this year, the link for the complete selection above.


Department of Linguistic Records



THE SPAM POETRY GAME
Round Two - 27 Entries!
You'll want to have plenty of time to study this wonderful selection of spam poetry most of which used the same cluster of random words and phrases. Each poet brought their own style and sensibility to the words. Some people offered a number of works and some offered works that seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with the directions for this game. But that's poets for you (or possibly people who cannot read instructions).

BELOW THE RESULTS FROM OUR POETS


Mon 5/7/2007 9:57 PM

First half and last line complete the mirrored stochasticative...

storms ~ emote
reputation ~ radarman
wrong ~ toward
only on the ~ alt no Zerbo
hand grasp ~ spurge avow
love more ~ Ham rag
tempests ~ nonprint
end enemies ~ lament lazy
remember ~ adrenal
there no england ~ brogan an craft
lessen days ~ guff vassal
freedom ~ malevo
however ~ several
customer death ~ Wtoeh rewatow
wrong paradise ~ laborat zonalt

but part of the common ~ runner alt or boy tod

Remainder
[Skillful pilots gain their much my political life, but no who mixes the pleasant with the useful. I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man.]

0!Z!^!P P!^VP
Mon 5/7/2007 10:06 PM

Skillful pilots
enemies that I can remember

part of the Common
is
the hand that does not grasp


God's ways of freedom

the pleasant with the useful.
An apology mixes
shortcut to life

of his memory
love the more


Remainder
reputation from storms and your wrong.? Bah! adversaries in alights only on . The greater the difficulty If you tempests. To the end . There is no of England. lesson imperfectly The bird our days Disgusting! wrong, Cowardly! Beneath the gentleman, however be. Where customer to death, you can't wrong he might go in paradise surmounting it. gain their much my political life, but no who I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness , but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man.

Jim Piat
Mon 5/7/2007 11:29 PM

apology


I have had
a lot of
skillful
political
pilots
grasp
reputation
from
difficulty

and
there is
England
God's
Law
Honesty
reputation
judgment
glory
life

cowardly
enemies
disgusting
storms
badness
death
freedom
memory
love

I
never
justify
error
but
I always
forget
dignity

life is a
wrong
shortcut
where
the
tempests
end
paradise
imperfectly

beneath
the
gentleman
customer


Bah!
bird

[remainder words]
is part of the Common wrong. An in alights only on the hand that does not grasp. The greater If forgive you t more. end that I can remember. There is no of lesson our days ways however be. to, you can't he might go in surmounting it. gain their much my, but no who mixes pleasant with useful there is much. I never of any but always forget. He to everyone's there is approval of, is a learned. is a question of right or not a matter of. Everyone complains of of his, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man

Nick Piombino
Tue 5/8/2007 8:40 AM


Malt does more to Milton
than the policy of England.

God’s reputation mixes
skillful approval of
the cowardly customer with
the law of death.

Everyone alights honesty.
The tempest’s political badness
is surmounting dignity.

A gentleman always
gains adversaries.
To the enemies I can
remember, I hand no apology.
I never forgive you and
your wrong judgment.

A common bird complains
of the error of his memory.

If you love nobody, life
is a disgusting matter.

A lesson of my life:
There is no shortcut
to paradise.

Pilots in storms grasp
the difficulty in life.

Beneath glory, there is only
that question of right or wrong.

He can’t imperfectly forget
that much useful freedom.

Everyone’s end is pleasant,
However wrong he might be.
Bah!

But I go to where man
is to justify his ways.

But who have our days
learned from? There is
the greater part of their gain,
but not much more.

Remainder
An, on, it, the had, lot, any can, not, of, that, of, the, does

Kathy Burkett
Tue 5/8/2007 8:41 AM

[reputation]

reputation from
storms and your wrong. An apo
logy? Bah! adver


[only on the hand]

saries in alights
only on the hand that does
not grasp. The greater


[to the end]

the difficulty
If you love the more tempests.
To the end enem


[ies, there is no england]

ies that I can rem
ember. There is no
of England. lesson imper


[the bird]

fectly The bird our
days God's ways of freedom
Disgusting! wrong, Cow


[beneath the gentleman]

ardly! Beneath the
gentleman, however be.
Where customer to


[death, you can't wrong]

death, you can't wrong he
might go in paradise sur
mounting it. Skillful


[pilots gain their life]

pilots gain their much
my political life, but
no who mixes the


[i have had a lot]

pleasant with the use
ful. I have had a lot of
there is much error.


[i never forgive]

I never forgive,
dignity of any but
I always forget.


[law]

He gains shortcut to
life. Law everyone's there is
glory approval


[honesty is a question]

of, life is a learned.
Honesty is a question
of right or not a


[everyone complains]

matter of polic
y. Everyone complains of
the badness of his


[malt does more]

memory, but no
body of his judgment. Malt
does more than


[the common man]

Milton can to just
ify to man. is part of
the Common



(titles have been [added] but are all taken directly from the text of each haiku from which they are sampled)

Allan Revich http://www.digitalsalon.com

OCHO 14 Now Available on
Kindle
****************
Rod Smith's "Deed" Reviewed in The Nation
A Kind of Waiting Always by Joshua Clover