Spamzas

This poem is composed entirely out of Subject lines from my spam email. Each line, by line, is painfully unedited.

Dearly Beloved
Living out on the porch: our new all-weather wicker collection
hotplate
bayberries
unimaginable
BENEFIT
hit the deck with our grasshopper chair

Did you authorize Mr. Louis Henrik?

Respond urgently
evocatively
Please I Need A Trustworthy Person... Monday May 05, 2008
foretooth
Please Hear me
Good day to you
Good Day

Comments

Anonymous said…
As always you are a HOOT. My favorite "line" is "Please hear me." That totally resonates with me ... LOL!

This reminded me of one of Erica's assignments at college a while back. She had to take random words provided from somewhere (I can't remember where) and make "sentences" ... with a hysterical result.

She gave me the paper ... here are a few so you can see what I mean:

"An odd cat can beg but a pet bug can run."

"I may wash the robe and trade your pet."

"It's a sick pet that did lift its foot."

And just so you know they're not all about pets:

"We hope this place will put the fudge on the bill."
May 07, 2008
P.L. Frederick said…
Fun assignment, sweet bill!
May 08, 2008
Anonymous said…
Interesting! This prooves that there is some good in everything!
May 10, 2008
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