Can anybody help me on this? Not so long ago someone posted a beautiful verse parody of the ubiquitous African-leader's-widow 25-million-dollar spam-mail. It wasn't by an Eratosphere poet (I think) and I can't remember the thread it was posted on or the name of the poet.

Gregory

Gregory. Beautiful? Can't say I've seen it. If you get hold of, please post!

KEB

Katy,
I may have used the adjective rather loosely (well, sloppily). Beautifully executed, at any rate - at least, as I remember it.
Gregory

LOL! Gregory this is nothing other than what I expected. I wasn't expecting spiritual enlightmenment.

Do let us know, though, when you find it.

K

This isn't exactly what you were looking for, but it may be close ...
Take a look at who won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature.

Claudia

Claudia,
Thanks, not what I was looking for but fascinating all the same. There's a great deal of creative talent out there; maybe these writers are the Dickens of our day: convoluted plots, grotesque characters, a good dose of sentimentality and a guaranteed happy ending - for the reader as well.
Gregory

This poem , Spam Chant (scroll to the sixth post in the thread) probably isn't what you're looking for either, but it does mention the Nigerians amongst other Internet fraudsters and it gave me a good laugh.

Thanks, Winter, that's not it either but is great fun. Has anyone done an anthology of spam-mail poems yet?

ARGHHHHH

This was NOT from Dan. Dan does not write poems about wanting boobs. (Well, maybe he does, but he doesnt let ME see them and I'm pretty sure he doesnt want them in the same way "I" want them. LOL)

Sorry, I forgot to check whose name was "up" before I posted.

Reposted under my own name.

Arghhhhh!!!

Lo

[This message has been edited by Dan Halberstein (edited October 10, 2005).]

Is this what youi're looking for? I'm not sure it is - it isnt verse, I dont think, but it IS funny and it WAS here.
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/ubbhtm...ML/000725.html

That link will lead you to this one which may be what you're talking about:
http://www.419eater.com/html/oduobi_tokunbo.htm

And, just because I havent written anything new in forever, I am including MY contribution to the spam-fest.

Sick-Click

My E-Mail tells me what I miss -
The Insta-love - the Insta-kiss.
On floppy, hard drive, CD-ROM -
the torrid tapes of Pam and Tom.

I'm urged to purchase *Inches-Mo'*
to make my puny penis grow!!
If I subscribe to WebSite *X* -
I'll ALWAYS score the hottest sex.

*College Girls with Camera's Rolling -
Join Them in Their Naked Strolling!!*
*Fresh Farm-Girls Take It By the Horn!!*
(No wonder Daisy's jeans were torn)

*Increase Your Girth, Increase Your Size*
*Viagra Makes the Flaccid Rise*
I'm so confused by all these clicks -
Why DO they send such mail to chicks?

I read the titles, I delete;
Amazed, I hear the voice repeat,
"You have mail and it's disgraceful."
I find it all just so distasteful.

But wait - this ad - it speaks to ME -
*You, Too, Can Bounce Like Brittney*
I wonder ...hmmmm...no it's absurd!!
Smart girls don't trust the written word.

I read the small-print guarantee -
*A Chest to Defy Gravity*
It's not just men who can be rubes -
I'm sending cash - I'm buying boobs.

Lo