An Ode To Spam

Spam, this is for you (found these juicy morsels lying around the internet...)

1.
Blue can of steel
What promise do you hold?
Salt flesh so ripe

2.
Can of metal, slick
Soft center, so cool, moistening
I yearn for your salt

3.
Twist, pull the sharp lid
Jerks and cuts me deeply but
Spam, aah, my poultice

4.
Silent, former pig
One communal awareness
Myriad pink bricks

5.
Clad in metal, proud
No mere salt-curing for you
You are not bacon

6
And who dares mock Spam?
You? you? you are not worthy
Of one rich pink fleck

7.
Like some spongy rock
A granite, my piece of Spam
In sunlight on my plate

8.
Little slab of meat
In a wash of clear jelly
Now I heat the pan

9.
Oh tin of pink meat
I ponder what you may be:
Snout or ear or feet?

10.
In the cool morning
I fry up a slab of Spam
A dog barks next door

11.
Ears, snouts and innards
A homogenous mass
Pass another slice

12.
Old man seeks doctor
"I eat Spam daily", he says.
Angioplasty

13.
Highly unnatural
The tortured shape of this "food"
A small pink coffin

14.
Pink beefy temptress
I can no longer remain
Vegetarian

  • posted on 20 December 2005
  • by Jesse

InterAction:

20 December 20051. amt:

i have a SPAM sweatshirt. a guy once said that it was an acronym:
Single
People
Afraid of
Marriage
how's that poetic?
=)

20 December 20052. Mike Randall:

You forgot this stanza:

Spam,Spam,Spam,Spam,Spam.
Spam,Spam,Eggs,Sausage and Spam.
Spam,Spam,Spam,Spam,Spam!

:-)

Mike

21 December 20053. Jesse Gardner:

Ang - perhaps the shirt took on the characteristics of it's wearer?

Mike - of course! can't have spam without the spam and spam!

21 December 20054. Mike Randall:

All we need now is a chorus of Vikings in the background!

:-)

(I like Haiku, Don't you?)


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