Found Poem Senyru

Verbatim "Found Poem" Senyru from a Spam List

Black Lizard*
in the apple orchard
ladies scream

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breaking news
lists your name on TV--
FBI reward

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on my iPhone
Amazon ladies photos—
Grassroots Promotions
 

Author Note: All the words or portions of words in these senryu can be found on the Spam List below.

Sources:

Linda Papanicolaou posted a Spam list in the foundpoetrystudio and created haiku / senyru from words found on the list—these words are highlighted in yellow. Linda did not use every word on the list—rather the list was a resource of possible words that might be used in a "found poem". This method of creation is very much like the process of creating a collage. The list is posted below.

John Daleiden used the same Spam list to create the three senryu posted above. John used only words or parts of words on the list to create the senryu.

The Spam List:

Author note on Black Lizard*

The significance of Black Lizard* needs explanation.

Black Lizard was a publisher imprint during the 1980s. A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades between the 1930s and the 1960s. Creative Arts Book Company was founded by Don Ellis in 1966. Creative Arts filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003 ["Black Lizard": Wikipedia].

A film: Black Lizard (•å'å¡ Kurotokage) is a 1968 Japanese detective film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is based on a 1934 novel by Edogawa Rampo and its theatrical adaptation by Yukio Mishima, who, at the time, was the lover of Akihiro Maruyama, the actor who plays the notorious female criminal "Black Lizard" in drag. The film's protagonist is Kogoro Akechi, a brilliant detective patterned on Sherlock Holmes who appears in several stories by Edogawa Rampo and is a fixture in Japanese popular culture. The film currently has no official DVD release, and copies of the film are extremely difficult to find, but it has gained a cult following and is highly regarded by devotees of "kitsch" and "campy" films ["Black Lizard (film)": Wikipedia].

The novel Black Lizard has been published in English by Kurodahan Press in a dual edition with The Beast in the Shadow (aka Inju)

Spam List poem as a "found poem":

From Poets.org:

Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.

From Wikipedia:

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and re-framing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original. 

First published in Sketchbook: 7-1, 40: January, February, 2012.
 http://poetrywriting.org/Sketchbook0-0FoundPoemResources/FP_Exercise_1_John_Daleiden_Senryu_From_A_Spam_List.htm