Anonymous Crit:
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On Spam Diptych:
Poems composed to incorporate a heap of random words, such as spammers now use to camouflage their efforts from spam filters?
Peter's comment may have been intended as satirically tongue in cheek, but these pieces do "counterfeit meaning" to the point where we wonder what deep connections might be escaping us.
A well-executed joke, perhaps, or a faking of surrealism, but such exercises can produce results we never intended or foresaw. We might dismiss this as the nonsense it was probably intended to be, and yet L3-6 of I, and the first two and last two lines of II, do seem to reach a kind of sense.
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