Poetry: No Rhyme or Reason
Newsweek, December, 2003 by Rebecca Sinderbrand
As Congress creates new rules to prevent Web surfers from drowning in a sea of spam, the literati are crying foul. More than 8 billion pieces of spam are sent worldwide daily, making it one of the most prolific avenues of expression. It seems that, within the deluge of refinancing plans and penis-enlargement offers, there's fodder for spam poetry. Bloggers have been forming the often-racy verse from the subject lines of e-mails. "They're liberating language from meaning," says University at Buffalo, N.Y., poetry professor Loss Pequeno Glazier, who calls spam poets the descendants of William Burroughs. A (sort of) family-friendly sample:
"Number 1," by Kristin Thomas: Quality Ink up to 80% off/Answers Now on the Distortion of Evidence;/Clean your colon./ Improve sense of...
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