Spam poetry - true lovers only

Filed in archive Spam News on February 5, 2007

There are a lot of things you can do with the spam that inevitably comes to your inbox, in loads or sporadically. Best actions taken would be to filter it, re-filter, report it, train your filter to recognize it next time and at last delete it. Some of us get anger attacks when we see spam littering our inboxes, while others, believe it or not, seem to love it.

In addition to turning spam into art, some people can also make poetry out of the gibberish. It sounds crazy, but Kristin has been doing it for years now, creating poems out of unsolicited mail she gets every day. One of my favorite Kristin's spam poems is called It Counts:

"3 Chicks in one night
(25 mg did the trick.)
3 hand made silk ties
3 dollars, each
4 out of 5 doctors recommend
5 financial tips for grads
6 times the action
7 minutes in heaven!
15 minutes of waiting and then
36 hours of pleasure!
Numbers never lie my friend
Numbers never lie."

Other people have also gotten the urge to make poetry out of spam, Stacy Teicher makes them in haiku form and calls them Spam-ku.

Me? I filter, report, delete. Not really an artistic soul am I? What do you do with spam which gets through?