As the border between spam and avant-garde art grows ever thinner

[jducoeur]

Got this spam on the SCA Questions list the other day. I haven't the slightest clue what they are thinking, nor even what language a few of these words are supposed to be from, but man -- I can *so* see confusing a poetry slam with a dramatic reading. (The combination of punctuation and repeated words just *makes* it as performance art, not to mention that a bunch of lines are more or less iambic.)

potboy baboo nopal.
lives grouch gooey budge!
cashew chalk coatee oakery?
potion alb feel bay.
mix give scamp.
pupa blase.
pawn sin.
oakery estop reflux wen?
bled sin tops cashew.
fully cooker swathe nimbus!
alb fully glover.
smelt brazil public penes.
gasper reflux pink sap.
sniffy ape nimbus gypsa.
fiber cashew rococo agile?
tempi sap elan grouch!
slam public.
chose moving alb rococo.
estop lives.
luting nimbus valuer rococo?
gird seer nimbus hubby!
moving shrink large.
pant acuity luting wen?
arise alb nopal.

Comments

[quantumkitty.livejournal.com]

not to mention that a bunch of lines are more or less iambic

Which lines are you talking about? I don't see any that are.

[jducoeur]

Well, I suppose I should say instead that many lines *can* be given iambically -- with so little semantic content, and a lot of single-syllable words, I find it pretty easy to adjust the stresses to that form. (Admittedly, some lines require a well-timed pause or two, but that's not unusual even in nominally iambic pentameter...)

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Truly, it as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.

This is what just did it for me:

smelt brazil public penes.
gasper reflux pink sap.

EEEeeew.