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 THE SPAM POETRY GAME

Results from Round #1
Results from Round #2
The following are the instructions sent out by email for Round One at 5/21/2005 1:40 PM

Below are some random words found 'as is' in some spam trash - you probably got a copy too! Please take this material and do with it what you will to create a poem. If you add words put them in brackets. If you remove anything put it as a remainder after the poem. Time limit 48 hours from this posting. send to info@ontologicalmuseum.org

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Did raise, sure surface. Again, widely, I pass. Plant complete
letter hundred fast high. Dog interest car letter. Ground,
write, life hat, lay. North paint thought map. Among end night
evening then much complete. Game, age grow a. Other row burn
hand art and eye. Little field own for get use, mile. Left need
by bat region. Ready either energy earth. I, men captain must,
will me burn. Had, see, seem, was head sit.
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Results will be donated to the Ontological Museum for a show later this year and documented online.
Thanks,
Cecil Touchon
http://ontologicalmuseum.org
http://collagepoetry.com

Instructions for Round Two
THE SPAM POETRY GAME
The following are the instructions for Round Two (Round One happened on
5/21/2005)
Results from round one: http://ontologicalmuseum.org/museum/spam-poetry-game-exhibit/list.htm

Below are some random words found in some recent spam trash - you probably got a copy too! Please take this material and do with it what you will to create a poem. If you add words put them in brackets. If you remove anything put it as a remainder after the poem. Time limit 48 hours from this posting. send to info@ontologicalmuseum.org

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reputation from storms and your wrong. An apology? Bah! adversaries in alights only on the hand that does not grasp. The greater the difficulty If you love the more tempests. To the end enemies that I can remember. There is no of England. lesson imperfectly The bird our days God's ways of freedom Disgusting! wrong, Cowardly! Beneath the gentleman, however be. Where customer to death, you can't wrong he might go in paradise surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their much my political life, but no who mixes the pleasant with the useful. I have had a lot of there is much error. I never forgive, dignity of any but I always forget. He gains shortcut to life. Law everyone's there is glory approval of, life is a learned. Honesty is a question of right or not a matter of policy. Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. Malt does more than Milton can to justify to man. is part of the Common
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By participating you are donating the results and its copyright usage to the Ontological Museum for future exhibitions. Your work will be documented online.
Thanks,
Cecil Touchon
http://ontologicalmuseum.org
http://collagepoetry.com 



ROUND ONE IS NOW CLOSED
ROUND TWO IS NOW CLOSED
OUR POETRY EXPERTS ARE NOW COMPILING THE RESULTS