Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Epic Spoem #1

i get these emails you see...
unsolicited.

someone named them
after the curious meat product so popular in Hawaii: SPAM
and the name stuck.

they are also known as 'junk mail',
but if i've learned anything,
it's that junk, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

i've noticed that sometimes
at the bottom of SPAM,
there is a paragraph of half-sentences
that ramble on and on
about nothing in particular
and have nothing to do
with the blackmarket medications they are
peddling so pesteringly.

sometimes coherent,
more often not.

but i have deciphered the code,
broken the riddle.

they are pieces of epic post-modern poems,
a new form:
part spam, part poem.
spoems, if you will.

all i had to do was put them
in order.

call me the accidental spoet...

(please read aloud):

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