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December 5, 2001

SatireWire's Second Annual Poetry Spam. Write poetry out of quotes from spam emails.

Think it's easy to create a poem consisting entirely of passages from Spam emails? Don't tell that to Darrell Jones, who, in an addendum to his entry for SatireWire's 1st annual Poetry Spam last year, wrote: "This is harder than it looks!" and steadfastly proved his point by not winning the contest.