I Hope All is Well with You (A Spam Poem)

Found poetry: taking existing texts and refashioning them, reordering them, and presenting them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage.

I hope all is well with you.

I am a real human.

Just wondering if you got the email I sent you.

You won’t believe what this crazy guy did.

There’s a bizarre indigenous cinnamon trick.

Have you heard?

Pour Listerine on your toes.

Get everything for just $25.00 a month.

What is the first thing you do in the morning?

Need to see the images?

. . .

I hope all is well with you.

This is going to sound a bit crazy:

I found your website.

If you’re stuck with achy knees,

Struggling to see at night;

If for any reason, you can’t carry a concealed weapon,

Get an erection so firm you can hang the flag from it.

Here’s what you need to know:

Time is running out.

. . .

I hope all is well with you.

Have you ever felt like your prayers aren’t being heard?

I realize my last email was too long.

This isn’t supposed to happen.

A rogue whistleblowing doctor from Japan says

The kitchen should be our happy place.

So, here’s a fact that might surprise you:

If you no longer want to receive my emails,

We have a business proposal:

Imagine getting a complete joint replacement without surgery.

(All lines above taken from the first lines of spam received this week.)

Please share - launched today at https://thisisausterity.uk - a series of found poems documenting the suffering caused by the UK gov't's austerity programme.

The purpose of these poems is to highlight needless and ideologically motivated inhumanity. All are released under a Creative Commons non-commercial licence.

#Austerity #Poetry #FoundPoems #AntiAusterity #Protest #ProtestPoetry #Tories #ConservativeParty

Sharing something I've been up to. For a while now I've been working on a series of poems on the subject of austerity.

These are all found poems - all are derived from media reports (sources are marked on the images). The idea is to show, directly, the suffering this policy causes.

I'm planning to publish these online sooon. Austerity 2.0 will be upon us soon. It's a travesty. Want to do my bit, however small, to counter it.

#austerity #poetry #foundPoems #foundPoetry #protestLiterature