SPAM IS THE NEW FORM OF TRUE ART

SPAM IS THE NEW FORM OF TRUE ART

After sitting all day
At the auto shop
Waiting for my old car to
Be repaired I get home
Angry that nothing was found
And order a pizza

And then?

Annoyed

I sit

Scroll
Smoke
Contemplate

Read a few great new
Poems in my poetry
Group & find a blocked as spam
Piece posted by an unfamiliar woman
Which says:

“Buy My Old Patio Furniture At
A Low Low Price”

picture attached*

But then?

After many years of editing
Years of writing
Suddenly a great
Vision enters my mind
And for the first time ever
I ask myself:

Could this be
The new direction poetry
Is heading in?

Simple & yet metaphoric?

Minimalist
& yet the most powerful
Creativity of this one
Woman’s life displayed
Explained
By its very existence
In a spam like display?

Artistic :

With a photo of beat
Up chairs & a dirty
Plastic table
An ash tray on top
Full of cigarettes
Saying, making the
Statement

My life is a total scam
Almost as shitty as the plastic
Objects in this
Badly taken photograph

I sell them

As memory
As grief

As trauma

Feel the false joy,
The desperation when
You see it’s condition
As well as
The perfect profile
Photo of me & my
Husband smiling after our
Many years of marriage

Which is
A total sham

I’ve banged the mail man
On this table, the plumber &
The next store neighbor,
The delivery boy & the
Spectrum Internet sales guy

While my husband who
Said he was working late again
Overtime

Was actually
At the gay bar

YES.

This is
Must be genius
The ecstatic new vision, form
I have been looking
For through all of these blocked
Items completely wrong
All of this time & not
Truly considering the
Amount of time, art
And depth that these
Poor desolate souls
Have been putting into
These shunned
And unappreciated works

And suddenly,
Because of her art
I felt a lot better about
My bad day

And that my life
My car & my situation
Is nowhere near as bad
Or as pitiful as theirs

So if you read this poem
In complete earnest
Then I owe you an apology

But then again?
In the near future
Expect more poems like
This mocking & making
Fun of all the morons &
Idiots who try to sell their
Worthless & ridiculous
Garbage in my group
And on my page

Because it’s fun. ; )

Sincerely

~ R.M. Engelhardt
Administrator, Dead Man’s Press Ink.