Postmodern Poetry

Okay.

Is it just me, or is junk email starting to get really...beautiful?

From an item in my junk mail the other day, attached to an advertisment for various penis-enhancing drugs:
"Then he slowly rolled over on his side and began the terrible job of getting to his knees again.
The next clipping was from page one of the Bakersfield Journal.
Or at the end of Chapter 9, Fiery Doom, he'd be tied to a chair in a burning warehouse."

What?

Sort of awesome and evocative, right?

Now, I know that they just have to attach text to get through junk filters, but that's really pretty.

I sort of half-remember a story from the '30s or so, maybe even earlier, when "Modern" poetry was starting to be a real movement, and there was this whole debate amongst the critics about whether or not some of these poets were expressing themselves legitimately and artistically, or if the whole movement was more or less a gimmick, and just crap. Some critic wrote a poem with words pulled at random out of the dictionary, and submitted it anonymously to a literary journal that specialized in modern poetry- it was, of course, accepted and published and recieved quite a warm review, and then the critic who submitted the poem unveiled his trick and then there was more debate, etc...

Well, what if there is a poet somewhere out in the world who is in an opposite position: a legitimate poet who is sending out junk emails to pay the bills, but in place of the gibberish that usually is tacked on to those things, he or she is putting exquisite little poems into the emails, in the hope that someone out there actually reads them?

I've also noticed that all of these drug-related junk emails I get have the words "Tora! Tora! Tora!" across the top of the page, which is kind of weird, too.

Is it all some big literary conspiracy? Are there poets and history buffs in Asia trying to improve our sex lives through illegal Viagra? What's up with that?