Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Spam Haiku

Like many of you, I have been under a fairly heavy spam bombardment the last several months. Many of these emails have incorporated what I assume is a random word generator to create the subject line, stringing together provocative words into unlikely nonsense titles like "I'll antipasto and nguyen classic" and "Also codpiece get appraise cowpea."

They're fairly annoying, but my anti-spam program does a pretty good job of keeping the nuisance to a minimum. However, looking in the spam folder and reading the subject lines, they start to read like avant-garde abstract poetry, or very badly translated haiku:

He drive by fruity
Which smoke as unemployment
Look what you can have


and

Be fly in watchband
This is important fetter
Her complaint the yorker


Remember, I didn't say they were good poems, I just said there's a resemblance to poetry.

Looking rich they are
Just like the original
Exclusive pygmalion.

Emperor bipartite
Listen as polemical
That drainage hibernia.


The one that just arrived - even as I was writing this - sounds almost poignant:

Looking good
Regarding MSN carnation
Cant find you on msn...


For those that don't appreciate haiku, there's the denser modernism of the body text:

Coefficient some teaspoon some vying, cattle!
Cartoon and scamp some glide a sewerage
In devolution on inject in carbonate.
Alley see reclamation in alundum or upsurge the brunette
The succession or contribute or daytona
The mummy
It's transcription
Try pickerel
A caption or utensil
The nair it's yuck it drawl it.


See? It's fun and easy. Look in your spam folder and see what you come up with and post the results here as a comment to this post. This might start a new meme - spam haiku.

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