Spam Haikus ----------- Bluish can of steel What promise do you hold? Salty flesh so ripe Can of metal, slick Soft center, so cool, moistening I yearn for your salt Twist, pull the sharp lid Jerks and cuts me deeply but Spam, ahh, my poultice Silent former pig One communal awareness Myriad pink bricks Clad in metal, proud No mere salt-curing for you You are not bacon And who dares mock Spam? You? you? you are not worthy Of one rich pink fleck Like some spongy rock A granite, my piece of Spam Sunlight on my plate Little slab of meat In a wash of clear jelly Now I heat the pan Oh tin of pink meat I ponder what you may be: Snout or ear or feet? In the cool morning I fry up a slab of Spam A dog barks next door Pink tender morsel Glistening with salty gel What the heck is it? Ears, snouts and innards A homogeneous mass Pass another slice Old man seeks doctor "I eat Spam daily," he says Angioplasty Hardly natural Tortured shape, elastic food A small pink coffin Pink beefy temptress I can no longer remain Vegetarian I, Stuart, made these up: ------------------------ Blob of flesh-toned stuff So delicious and tasty Much indigestion Edible or not? Will anyone ever know? It does not matter Rectangle of bliss A more appropriate name Would be ambrosia One helpless, poor pig Is transformed in the factory Into a pink mass And one for e-mailers and newsgroup readers: ------------------------------------------- Spam, unwanted words Clutter my reading daily Will it ever stop?