Hila Ratzabi - { I Don’t Care if Your Memoir is True, and Other Thoughts on Truth and Fiction }
Jessica Gross - { 2 Train, End to End }
Michael Henson - { Maggie Boylan }
Alissa Heyman - { I Married a Skull } { Shortly After the Wedding }{ The Silent Treatment }
Lynne Procope - { Doing It for Love } { The Poet Addresses Saartjie Baartman; The So Called Venus Hottentot. }
Tim Raymond - { Small }
Jaime Warburton - { This Is Not a Poem About a Dream } { - Red Moon Last Night }
Shelly Oria - { Integrity }
Sheila Thorne - { Betrayal }
Jennifer Duffield White - { Blue-Sky Treason }
Tamiko Beyer - { We Don’t Know and They Won’t Tell Us ~ Poetry in the Space of Possibility }
Adam Auerbach - { Illustrations }
Simon Perchik - { Five Untitled Poems }
Lynne Procope - { The Mortal Danger of Redheads }
Hila Ratzabi - { I Have to Show My Appreciation to You for Rescuing Me from This Setting }
| I have to show my appreciation to you for rescuing me from this setting. |
by Hila Ratzabi
Introduction
Ever since I created an author website, I’ve been getting emails from the kind people at wordpress with the title: “[Hila Ratzabi] Please moderate: Hila author photo2.” Though my site is not a blog and there are no comment sections to speak of, there is a virtual hole in it. Though it, spammers have found a way to “comment” on an author photo, depositing links to websites featuring hotels, watches, golf balls, etc. But these spammers also leave actual comments, in the guise of typical comments one might find on a blog.
I got into the habit of automatically relegating those comments to the black hole of spam, until one day a comment arrived in my inbox that startled me. It began: “I have to show my appreciation to you for rescuing me from this setting.” These words stopped me in my tracks: they were beautiful and jarring and felt like poetry. I continued to read further into the paragraph littered with cyber-speak and odd references to strategies and solutions, becoming more and more enticed by the strange human voice, whose speech was peppered with praise and thanks for the existence of my website. Though this same message was undoubtedly sent to thousands of websites, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the personal appeal in the author’s tone and choice of words. I began to notice that many of the spam messages were disguised as notes of gratitude and appreciation. It was as if all these spammers intuitively caught onto the human need to be noticed and loved that is inherent in our self-posturing online, and decided to capitalize on it.
In addition to noticing the odd profusion of thanks in these messages, I discovered more and more peculiar word combinations and phrases, mini-narratives, nuggets of poetry, and even an abrupt introduction of a character (look out for Betty). Some phrases instantly recalled Gertrude Stein, like the following lines: “Although cold to find creditable…” and “the solitary is not required to give up his cabbage.”
I compiled this collection of spam fragments without changing any of the wording, punctuation, or grammar. I have given each a title (except for one-line fragments) and arranged them in an order that feels like a narrative, a prose poem in sections.
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I’m able to at this time look ahead to my future
I have to show my appreciation to you for rescuing me from this setting. After exploring through the search engines and coming across strategies that were not helpful, I believed my life was over. Existing without the solutions to the issues you’ve resolved by means of the article content is a serious case, as well as those that could have adversely damaged my entire career if I had not discovered the website. Your actual skills and kindness in handling all the details was very helpful. I am not sure what I would’ve done if I hadn’t discovered such a step like this. I’m able to at this time look ahead to my future. Thanks so much for your high quality and amazing help. I will not be reluctant to refer the website to anybody who should have support about this problem.
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took me to cry
I precisely needed to say thanks all over again. I’m not certain what I would have done without those ways shown by you over my topic. It absolutely was a real frightening scenario in my circumstances, but viewing a well-written style you treated it took me to cry with delight. I’m just thankful for the guidance and as well , trust you recognize what an amazing job you happen to be getting into instructing the others using your webblog. Most probably you’ve never encountered all of us.
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Will the north star (polaris) always be the north star?
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I appear to like balls
Although cold to find creditable, I compete in Seasoned MIni Golf tournaments on all sides of the power and was wondering what kind of ball would perform a- on the green (min golf conduct lol). I appear to like balls with a lower compression (Maxfli Noodle, Volvik Crystal) besides after reading up on the plan of golf balls, I am not sure that this is the dexter decision. What type of balls (compression, three poem two morsel etc.) would help expanding my performance.
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Jealous, adj.
Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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Like stillness of use
Usable, they border to be taught that filing lawsuits is not the on nigh to abandon piracy. Degree than, it’s to boat something most skilled than piracy. Like stillness of use.
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and favoured space
I reasonable present up on some exciting new galvanizing cars that inclination be coming gone from in the next 3 years that match my budget and inclination be struck by up to 300 mpg!!! But I was wondering, how these cars would touch on a street after a ice storm? The pile would be great in requital for me, but i material in the midwest and need a machine that can suffer from around ice and snow. The facts I would like to from is the typical weight an electric car, front/rear whither ride herd on hint at, and favoured space.
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RHH, NRHH, doesn’t matter. An album that’s fun fit you
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the solitary is not required to give up his cabbage
what is corporation?
A corporation is a unravel entity that files its own weight return… The resolution is to hold the affair separate from the individual… for benchmark, if someone has a responsibility, it’s best to unite in wrapper the role gets sued instead of a apportionment of money… (also quest of assessment benefits)… If the party gets sued, the corporation is liable to pay, not the individual… in other words, the solitary is not required to give up his cabbage and assets to transmit on a judgment against the following because the company is a divide entity…
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You’re the one
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