Tag: spoetry
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Flarf! Gesundheit. More Spam Poetry prior art
Forget “spoetry”; according to Boing Boing, experiments in the field stretch back a few years, and were known as “flarf”. The Flarf Festival is a series of live events in New York City between April 20-22. For archival purposes, here are my own three attempts: General Flood 250 Ways to Thank You Here We Come!
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Spam Poem No. 3: “General Flood”
Please enjoy “General Flood”, the third in our ongoing series of flarf (spam poetry), assembled from the nonsense I find in my spam folder. General Flood thank god I’m back nowImportant questiondid you hear about thisgeneral flood you won’t believe thisbereavemententering the line ofpopulations if left after flooding isit, Will it work out?conditions will behard…
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Spam Poem No. 2: “250 Ways to Thank You”
The second in a series of found poetry taken from spam subjects. I’m taking a different tack this time, avoiding the more absurdist lines that appear in No. 1 “Here we come!” (there’s plenty more of that waiting for No. 3) and aiming instead for a coherent narrative flow. 250 Ways to Thank You Don’t…
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Spam Poem No. 1: “Here we come!”
In recent months I’ve noticed my spam becoming increasingly bizarre. Some subject lines are so truly absurd that I cannot imagine their origin. Are they simply really bad translations of, say, Russian or Portuguese? Are they random machine generations meant to foil spam filters? It’s a mystery. It has, however, made my daily batch of…