Today I received a message with a subject line of "Application approval #" followed by what is probably a spammer's tracking code which I will not reprint here. The message is a jumble of semi-random words and phrases that, as others have observed before me, have a sort of poetic unity. So I've decided to reformat the message with line breaks and present it to you for your interpretation and appreciation.
Application approval #
(author unknown)
profit and johns may trail !(author unknown)
mulberry the cyanic or epistemology
not alfalfa not duke and balloon on pursue , cowbell !
dryad , flex a boggle may defunct in transferor
on coward or potato
not whore or rebut the audubon !
waller it ablaze or aperiodic
not catalysis a transfix but eddy but mike ,
dollar try docket it transoceanic
and
notebook in rood
not seneca or Keine
(email hier )
and deathward may tambourine it's
or greenland !
virginal it
see volumetric in decolonize some
the bilingual , chauncey or
And that's how it ends. "chauncey or?" Is that "or" as in the conjuction*, or "or" as in the term for gold used in heraldry? Is this an unfinished work? Can someone suggest the closing lines? Or does this represent a unified whole, a completeness that encompasses the incompleteness of the human condition vis a vis a universe that is at once knowable and unknowable?
*"Or" is not a preposition. Silly boy.
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2 comments:
is it me...or is that the most confusing post you have EVER written?????
I like the poem. It does seem a bit unfinished - kind of leaves the reader just hanging. Chauncy or...or what? But perhaps that was the writers intent. Damn those spam poets.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I left a reply to your insurance question in the comments section of my last blog entry. I guess I should have just posted it here for you. That's what I get for trying to do anything sensible before the first cup of coffee...
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