Wikipedia says of the Spoem:

Spoetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: are “spam poems” written using only the subject lines from spam e-mail

…but I prefer to expand the definition a bit allowing myself full use of the spam message to become a “found poem” that I can manipulate (a bit) to become something elegant, even beautiful. Most of these spam messages are being created by computers, grabbing lines of text from the internet and cramming them together, then blasting them into the universe. So crammed, they are sometimes lovely. Often ugly. Sometimes so ugly they are lovely.

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