Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Whitman or Spambot?

It's time for today's round of  "Whitman or Spambot?"

Was the following written by the noted free verse poet or by a subroutine in a server in Shanghai?
Sit on overlooking
The noble grace of bearing
With different people
With different excuses to see
One can not help but ask
I sing the body electric, indeed...

11 comments:

John said...

I'm having trouble figuring out if you get the best spam, or you're just the only one who knows how to appreciate it.

Critter said...

Whitman would have written, "One cannot help TO ask". So, spam.

Fred said...

Jealous... all I ever get is incohearent ramblings about knock-off Uggs and handbags...

mariner said...

Actually, I *could* help but ask--and I did.

Tam said...

Fred,

"Jealous... all I ever get is incohearent ramblings about knock-off Uggs and handbags..."

Oh, those links were all in there, but I pruned them out. :D

Armed Texan said...

By Whitman, you mean Charles not Walt, right?

John said...

PUBLISH!!!! The growing collection on paper. And possibly make a profit off'n the varmints. ummm...lessee..

"Notes of Revenge from the Bots Front"

You can invent better titles, but your editing is what makes it worthy of perusal. A profit from spam!!!

...and BTW..thanks for all the free ice cream.

Anonymous said...

Armed Texan wins the internets!

gfa

Michael said...

Reading this bullshit
nostalgic at best
please keep your effin "poetry"
off the net

Chuck Pergiel said...

My dad liked poetry. I never cared for it. Sometimes I wonder why that is.

Steve C said...

Who knew Skynet had a sensitive side.