Accidental Poetry; Morgue Bingo and Pawn Chalk

I’m sitting at my kitchen table, battling a bit of a headache and fighting off eye strain, but there’s a thunderstorm rolling in, and I LOVE thunderstorms, so overall it’s a good evening so far. I hope that wherever you are as you’re reading this, you’re having a nice moment too!

OLD BUSINESS: I had my book signing at The Fine Grind this weekend, as you know, and it was a ton of fun! Congrats to Kris for winning the raffle prize (a book/box and Fine Grind mug!). Here’s a picture of the little cutie who did the honors of picking the winner. Oh…and here’s me too, for those of you who couldn’t be there. It’s a terrible picture, but I really wanted you to be able to see the pretty sunflowers in the front. A friend brought chocolate in the shape of sunflowers to match the book cover! How adorable is that?

I also sat on a panel at BooksNJ this weekend with Debra Borden and DeLaune Michel. The festival was wonderful and I’m looking forward to reading books by both authors! The Bergen County Library volunteers did an amazing job.

NEW BUSINESS: Today, I read a really fascinating piece of writing. I was totally captivated and puzzled and amused. Believe it or not, the bit of text I’m referring to actually came by way of a spammer! The poem below was created by either a spam robot or a space alien (I’d like to think I’m receiving messages from the latter). Obviously the “poem” below makes no sense. But some of the word combos are fascinating. Accidental poetry where you least expect it. I just had to share! I put my favorite ones in red.

aerate module.
morgue bingo.
sell voter.
valuer nopal shrink gasper!
ragout scamp graft.
tempi bay.
lumper elan smelt peso?
lives voter swathe pawn?
fully public gooey scamp?
seer fully.
gas smelt pupa.
oakery flood.
bounty outre cooker sell.
tare tempi gas glover!
nopal gird pupa give?
sin ingle.
pupa valuer.
cashew novel smelt valuer.
feed palmy graft tandem.
elan gird aerate swathe!
pawn chalk.
warble find tare elan!
bled coatee warble.
bay lumper.

Like one of these word combinations? Seen any random poetry today? Stories welcome.