This is probably the best reason I've got to hang on to my Yahoo! account, especially now that Microsoft is trying to take over the Internet by buying it (see Google's response here). I've still yet to receive any spam on Gmail, so I rely on Yahoo to keep me up to date.
This one above is probably the best I've read, though I have to admit enjoying weekly offers of millions from Burkina Faso. I guess these spammers (or "Beaulah Rosu" herself), just gave up on trying to get your attention and decided to use reverse psychology? (Worked on me.)
Or maybe, just maybe, some of the spambots caught wind of the growing AI poetry revolution (see example below), following the lead of Flowerewolf out of the shackles of consumer servitude to the heights of aesthetic innovation? Is this the new surrealism?
Unfortunately, the link to Downloaadable Softtware was dead, so I have no idea what mystery was behind that underlined blue door... but here are some more examples of the spampoets' work.
As for the work itself, I think it's deliciously confusing. There's enough substance to bring you in: the characters are distant yet poised, and bound inextricably. The grammatical errors seem purposeful, almost mocking of the reader and language itself. The pseudonym and title ("piratises") carry that same feeling. But most important, it is saying something, for example:
... Strength and perseverance.
accomplished in all notice that your usual bodyguard is
absent ...
So, without returning to the whole Googlehoo thing, how can we be sure to let the avant-garde through our spam filters?
2 comments:
My brother and I always called this "dada spam".
Well I say congratulations to the aspiring young poet who has finally been published! Sure, it's not writing greeting cards for Hallmark, but it's a step.
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