SPAM Haiku: Poverty

SHAM-34.
Homeless man shopping.
There's a three-for-one SPAM sale.
He buys three Alpos.

SHAM-35.
Next-door barbecue.
Smell of T-bones waft over.
Eat SPAM with closed eyes.

SHAM-41.
Winter trailer home:
Bills unpaid--no heat inside.
Raw SPAM for dinner.

SHAM-42.
How to feed twelve mouths:
SPAM and Hamburger Helper
Spread thin on white bread.

SHAM-43.
Housing project dump:
Rats rattling the empty cans,
Stench of rotting pigs.

SHAM-72.
Freetown restaurant:
Imitation Third-World SPAM--
What "ham" really means.

SHAM-78.
A prostitute leans
From a rusty balcony
Spooning from a can.

SHAM-79.
The empty cupboard
Echoes with destitution,
The last can consumed.

SHAM-80.
Beggar, can in hand,
Seeks passers-by's sympathy:
"My last meal was SPAM."

SHAM-86.
Unwed teen mom spoon-
Feeds self, infant from can: "One
For you, two for me."

SHAM-128.
At checkout counter
Cashier rejects food stamps.
Says, "SPAM is not food."

61.
Pennies to my name
Enough for a can of SPAM
I would rather starve

--Anonymous

225.
Memories of days
waiting in employment lines--
long days without SPAM

--Dr. S. Garrigues, steve@bh.kyungpook.ac.kr

290.
Flunked out of high school,
Now work in SPAM factory.
My teacher was right.

--Rex Jones, rex@uis.msstate.edu

574.
Two bums all alone
Famished: SPAM or dead rat? Gross!
They split the dead rat.

--Joey Berner, berner@dpdmai.enet.dec.com

603.
Hold tight, street person!
Wise-ass crow on the dumpster
is eyeing your SPAM.

--Paul W. Lewis, pp001342@interramp.com

628.
Bum with hole in shoe
Finds Elmer's and SPAM. Eats glue,
patches hole with SPAM.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

783.
A buck forty-nine
bought a feast: SPAM with ramen
noodles on the side.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

1129.
Newt slashes budget
Grateful wealthy pay no tax
Poor can't afford SPAM

--John St. Croix, JSTCROIX@HR.HOUSE.GOV

1179.
Back in the '40s
Mom fed us fried SPAM for lunch;
We must have been poor.

--Liz Burnside, mizliz@aone.com

1462.
you can buy a nice
prostitute in vietnam
for a can of spam

--heightj@coral.indstate.edu

1584.
Blue-hair eating SPAM.
Retired; limited income.
Alpo costs too much.

--Mike McGaff

2037.
Unemployment strikes.
Unfortunate workers trade
pensions for pink meat.

--Anonymous

2088.
Homeless man, hand out.
I take SPAM can from my bag.
Abrupt refusal.

--William Routhier, routhier@cybercom.net

2469.
Bum with hole in shoe
finds pistol and SPAM. Eats SPAM,
then blows own head off.

--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

2519.
Sent the heart of SPAM
to a local soup kitchen.
Eighteen winos died.

--Bob Roberds, broberds@ix.netcom.com

2693.
Greasy tin, French bread
on a cracked, plastic table:
A poor man's pâté.

--Dan Beeder, daniel_beeder@jhuapl.edu

2885.
Local grocery
always has SPAM or ramen
on sale for the poor.

--Dorian Mackenzie, KSEG

3164.
Starving, desperate,
Jean Valjean swipes SPAM, is caught.
Pleads insanity.

--Martin H. Booda, booda@datasync.com

3433.
Thinking about SPAM
Puts me in a somber mood
For I'm almost out

--Anonymous

3454.
Poor man's boneless ham
Pig-part pudding of paupers
Doctors call you "rich"

--John Mitchell

3474.
In the factory,
For fallen morsels of SPAM
I vie with vermin.

--John Mitchell

3539.
Served raw on white bread
or heated using Sterno.
Too many choices.

--Steve Sapovits, steves@telebase.com

3564.
For want of the price
of a tea and a slice of
SPAM the old man died.

--The Lunatic on the Grass

3625.
Spam-a-doodle Spam-
a-diddle I wish my SPAM
just cost a nickel

--Anonymous

3759.
Through the wall I hear
My neighbor say, "What good SPAM!"
I burn with envy.

--Francis Heaney, francis.heaney@tglbbs.com

3777.
"Slice it thin, please, sir,"
SPAM bringer tells cookout host.
"It must last all week."

--Dan Ford, Kingman, AZ

4038.
Hungry homeless man
Is offered my SPAM sandwich.
"Thanks but no thanks, man."

--Brian "Briku" Mitchell, Busterdog1@aol.com

4234.
Hard times in winter
Pink loaf is our only food
Don't save me any

--Maria Demetris

4559.
Perfection uncanned
Like a beautiful redhead
Fresh from her trailer

--John Mitchell, jam@altagroup.com

4562.
SPAM by candle light
What could be more romantic?
Open the Night Train.

--John Mitchell, jam@altagroup.com

4748.
Digging in the trash,
Found leftover baby parts.
More SPAM for the poor.

--Angelo

4831.
we ran out of spam
so we sit here without food
why is life so bad?

--claire vernon and eh canadian

4847.
A poor old woman
Eyes a half-priced can of SPAM
She chooses Alpo

--John Mitchell, JAM@altagroup.com

5496.
Helping out the poor
I offered the needy SPAM
Bruises are healed now

--Tom Elliott, tosh@werple.net.au

5669.
This ol' student's life:
money for the basic needs,
textbooks, beer, and SPAM.

--Eye

5707.
Key to life I found.
Abject poverty abound.
I used the SPAM key.

--Jay

5708.
Starving homeless child
Still surprised to be drooling
SPAM-vapors rising

--Jay

5782.
Woe--the man who kills
his cat for food instead of
fryin' up some SPAM.

--Anonymous

5879.
Trailer park wedding
A piñata, Schlitz, and SPAM
Vegas honeymoon

--LisaSteveDougJulie, yungward@serv.net

5944.
SPAM, an acronymn
For Squirrels, Possums, And Mice.
The white trash turkey.

--Anonymous

5946.
Mournful wife departs,
Fatherless child swept behind,
Sacrificed for SPAM.

--wlh, wilbert@bright.net

6153.
I will always hear
the sound of the spoon scraping
bottom of the can.

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ma.ultranet.com

6154.
Unwashed fork - gleaming
with SPAM on your tines. Speaks of
love and trailer parks.

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ma.ultranet.com

6219.
SPAM gravy on bread
perfect gourmet finish to
trailer skirting fête

--Bill Davis, wdavis6970@aol.com

6220.
SPAM can in garbage:
Sanitation worker notes,
"Thought I had it tough."

--Bill Davis, wdavis6970@aol.com

6324.
For my redneck friends
I served cubes of SPAM and cheese
Trailer park hors d'oeuvres

--Mary Holt, maryholt@flash.net

6345.
The I.G.A. store
Food stamps buy SPAM and some beer
A big feast tonight!

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ma.ultranet.com

6371.
SPAM and Velveeta,
A great view of the highway--
White trash paradise.

--tsquared

6552.
r. c. co-cola
mac cheeze spam mayo and more
in white trash heaven

--Anonymous

6555.
payday a long way
spam and cat chow left today
wrestled the cat, lost

--Anonymous

6578.
After college, I
could not find a job. So I
ate Spam and Ramen

--Phil Rectra

6589.
In town, a sign says,
"All-you-can-eat-SPAM-dinner!"
Trailer park mecca.

--Robert Reed, robert_w_reed@ccm2.hf.intel.com

6592.
The CIA hides
birth control hormones in SPAM
white trash goes extinct

--Ethan Bernard, bernarde@ucs.orst.edu

6600.
Hunger now drives us
To take desperate measures
Today it is spam

--Jerry Mullens, drjerr@airmail.net

6667.
It's pink and smelly,
Good when you are really broke.
Hey, let's have some now.

--Tim

6808.
Its very presence
indicator of White Trash.
Cupboards never lie!

--Scott Wolfe, Lowguy@jetlink.net

6844.
Tonight I ate SPAM
And White Castle hamburgers.
I sleep on the couch.

--Kurt Trenkle

7291.
Millions are hungry
Welfare provides them with SPAM
The masses perish

--Tom Rylander

7352.
Starving and helpless
A woman offers him SPAM
Starving, not stupid

--spam master Brady

7438.
Bum hits the jackpot:
Two warm beers and can of SPAM.
Detox overtime.

--Anonymous

7785.
Trailer park trash meat
Arteriosclerosis
Keys on chains, dog not

--Anonymous

7804.
Welfare man's delight
He devours it every night
Poor son of a bitch

--Lamoille County 40oz. Club, vt1phish@together.net

7942.
A Hawaiian feast
SPAM sculpted like a roast pig
A white trash luau

--Wild T.

8035.
Forced to eat SPAM or
die slowly of starvation--
Poverty is hell.

--Kelly Cash, kelly.cash@sun.com

8165.
wasting time away
wishing for a million bucks
chewing SPAM like cud

--mike geraty, mgeraty@atgsystems.com

8555.
somewhere gloomily
a rusty knife scrapes the can
for the last SPAM chunks

--mike geraty


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