i have wondered whether there is any purpose to spam mail. this is certainly a scurge of 21st century life as nobody bothers to read it yet they fill our mailboxes daily. however, perhaps there are hidden gifts there somewhere and with spam poems i attempt to look at the positive side of a negative. taking only the information from a spam mail, i try and find a poetic translation which i then post along with the orignal here on the site.

these are purely my own interpretation of course and because of all this creative licence i stick to a few rules and limitations.

1. i can only use words from the original text.

2. i can erase as much as i want from beginning or end of a word, anything i am left with can be used... so 'brad' might eventually become only 'a' or 'bra' but not 'bad'.

3. if it isn't a word on its own, it can't be added to another. so no taking the letters 'b''r''a''d' and making 'brad'.

4. if there are two or more smaller words in a word, the word can be divided.

5. all capitalization and punctuation are to be removed in the final poem.

6. the title of the spam poem is always the subject of the original mail.

7. i will always post the original text with the poem.