the spam continues

[ofsatyagraha]

i would like to analyze it. perhaps one day i will create a book of poems "found" in my email. the forward will involve quotes - a line here, a stanza there, illustrating my analysis of the poets' motivations, the universal emotions captured in and manipulated by the text.

here is today's offering from the arbitrary gods of spam:

Hello, my dear

Comments

[queerrocket]

Man, I've got to start checking my spam box. What types of subject lines do they usually have?

Your analysis is deft and poetic in itself. You and I were meant to have jobs at which our offices were carpeted with oriental rugs.

[queerrocket]

Oh no! Out of the 114 messages in my spam box, not one was romantic! A few were sleazy and there was a great variety to the business scams, but no romance! They must know that I'm a homo.

[ofsatyagraha]

Paolo!

Merci merci pour tes mots. If I ever do have an office carpeted with an oriental rug, there is no one I'd rather share it with than you, my friend. We could brew tea all day: chamomile, ginger, oolong, rooibos, orange pekoe.

I'm sorry to hear about your unfortunate lack of romantic spam emails! I get better spam in my gmail account than .mac, although for a while i was getting the wackiest string of words.

Perhaps you should start combining lines at random from different spam emails - you might come up with something brilliant.

[aimlesswanderer]

This is probably unwarranted and complete disjointed from the post. I arrived here from elsewhere and your LJ's name reminded me of a poem by Amichai:

Forgetting Someone - Yehuda Amichai

Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light
in the backyard so it stays lit all the next day

But then it is the light that makes you remember.

./w