Spam Poetry

From the Chicago Sun-Times article: “Thomas relies on something far less social or real -- spam. Since about 2002, the Rogers Park resident has written whimsical poems using only the subject lines of the thousands of unwanted e-mails she gets. She posts them on her www.spam-poetry.com Web site.”

This is a poem included in the newspaper article:

“it counts”
3 Chicks in one night
(25 mg did the trick.)
3 hand made silk ties
3 dollars, each
4 out of 5 doctors recommend
5 financial tips for grads
6 times the action
7 minutes in heaven!
15 minutes of waiting and then
36 hours of pleasure!
Numbers never lie my friend
Numbers never lie

It might be fun to do some of these sometimes. It also might be worth considering how doing this changes our perspective on spam. Does this sort of play make us more or less of a consumer? If a different sort of consumer, then what’s the change?