I must admit that while I found Clive James's "Windows is Shutting Down" mildly amusing at first, it pretty soon came to seem tiresome. So the name "Windows" happens to be plural in form? Isn't that a very slender basis for sixteen lines of extrapolation to number mismatches that are not of the same kind at all? The only grammatical difference between "Windows is shutting down" and "Sons and Lovers is still selling well" is that in the latter kind of reference the name, or title, is usually italicised. It would hardly be any more silly to point out that James are not at their best here.
With that off my chest, I'll proceed to this:
SPAM SPAM SPAM
Good news for UR small unit! PHaMarcYe!
Your morRgage is already pre-approove!
Viagapra to make her mad with love!
Your own convincing REPLICCA! That caught my eye;
I e-mailed back to say “Well, thank you, yes.
What fun! I’d love a replica of me
for those occasions when I want to be
in two places at once.” As you would guess,
my message bounced. Sadly, I must reveal
that “Boggled P. Inordinate” is sham;
the name is just deceitfully unreal,
along with “Gudgeon Q. Ideogram”,
“Appurtenances W. Misdeal”,
and all the rest who send me SPAM SPAM SPAM.
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