Comments on: SPAMku! http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2009/10/26/spamku/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 By: Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition » Blog Archive » Send Us Your Turkey-Day Assignments! http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2009/10/26/spamku/#comment-234 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:01:48 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/?p=3705#comment-234 […] blog wants to know how you approach this holiday with your students. Do you assign elegant odes or SPAMku? Do you avoid the topic […]

]]> By: Mary, poet at large http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2009/10/26/spamku/#comment-233 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:31:55 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/?p=3705#comment-233 Spam and the Anxiety of Influence

I wonder if John Cho’s website is aware that it is part of a revered spam poetry lineage?

A very long time ago–the 1980s? When tvs didn’t have remote control?– the comedian Andrea Martin had a spot in the Second CIty TV workshop where she played a poetess who had written a book of haiku entitled “The Spam Dagger.” I am not much for memorizing poems, but I still half remember one of them:

Love: painful, gut wrenching, heartbreaking
leading to heartbreak and despair, and it never works out–
but what if it does?

Questions:
Does anyone actually know the correct text of this Spam Dagger Haiku?
Is Cho scamming the Spam Dagger consciously, or is it the universal spam poetry subconscious at work here–or am I just the only person who remembers and loves the “Spam Dagger”?

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