Spamoetry
February 23rd, 2007
I honestly wonder if there is anyone left in the world who makes their living from writing poetry anymore. Not that I am a huge fan of poetry or anything, but the beautiful and deep work being produced by the random-text generators employed by spammers has truly moved me. Here are a couple of examples from my Inbox. Read on and tell me you’re not moved too.
I call this one “Metamorphosis”
And he is swathed in ever-petrified dread;
Appear to lift up from the lake;
Late February, and the air’s so balmy
Partly stone, partly the absence of stone,
Sphinx of questioning substance, or a sort?
Snaps of ice cracking in the hidden air.
And so I gaze avidly
their bellies, they’re out cold, instantaneously!
Hoarfrost is in his bones and on his head,
Is it almost honey, is it snow?
Yes. You’d want that said, (if you,
the form sought for centuries by
Homeward into the howling woods), although
Empty streets I come upon by chance,
XVII. Greenland
there’s a pulpy orange-y smell from juice factories….
Event, the end of the painted road ends up
Beneath a pile of corpses, lying massed…
I’ve drifted somewhat from the distant heart.
And this, “Faith before the blade”
Are muffled into silence that refuses
Shadows keep piling up as surfaces
Are gliding toward me on the ice into
Place of absorbing snow, itself to be.
To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,
demonstrating their talent for comedy—stroke!
At the end of the road. Even if they are staring
Of too much truth to do much more than lie
Yes. You’d want that said, (if you
and the Splendid Splinter). For a few dreamy dollars,
Lucky the bell—still full and deep of throat,
From which, thanks to symmetry,
High on this surface, guarding the edge of Père,
Beneath the snowflakes I notice façades!
The ordinary, wide scene which begins
As it sits there like an eventual.
The weight of being born into exile is lifted.
Unreadable from behind—they are well down.
That rings, with faithful tongue, its pious note.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 am
lol, most of those _are_ from poems, just all mixed together! Check out http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/winterpoems.html There are quite a few lines from a Hugo and Bonnefoy
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