SPAM Haiku: Art

SHAM-23.
Post-SPAM catharsis:
Peptic acid and pink chunks.
Floor-mount Pollock piece.

268.
Try new SPAM carving
All you need's a plastic knife
I can carve a pig

--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au

630.
Salvador Dali
Paints soft, drooping cans of pork:
"Persistence of SPAM."

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

641.
winner of the prize
she proudly displays her art
a sculpture from SPAM

--Brian Minton, bminton@efn.org

662.
I went to Costco.
Six-packs of SPAM on display.
Life imitates art.

--Jon Howell, jhowell@us.oracle.com

718.
M. C. Escher's SPAM:
Pig-snout stairs run in circles.
Ever-rising pork.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

751.
In postwar Europe
Magritte painted a blue can.
Ce n'est pas un SPAM!

--Anonymous

788.
Warhol follows soup
cans with SPAM cans. Irate mobs
torch the gallery.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

789.
Picasso, Duchamp,
and Kandinsky loved SPAM. Square
meat: cubist's delight.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

956.
SPAM as an art form:
Great, but sadly lacking in
Aging resistance.

--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au

983.
Laminated SPAM
Encased in plastic layers
Hang it on your wall

--Tom Elliott, Tosh@Werple.mira.net.au

1073.
Jackson Pollock drips
SPAM grease on canvas, creates
"Number Twenty (Pink)."

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

1608.
claude monet painted
many pictures of spam, but
then ran out of pink.

--goat@uiuc.edu

1755.
To imagine SPAM
As anything but homely
Would be an art-crime.

--Reber Clark, rebermuse@aol.com

1837.
Monumental SPAMs
Brood, Picasso-like, aloof;
Defy ingestion.

--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk

1945.
Spray walls with SPAM mulch,
Peanut butter, and squid ink
Spots. "Kandinsky lives!"

--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk

1987.
Take a lump of SPAM.
Knead into pink figurine.
Cool companion.

--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk

2087.
Picasso applies
SPAM to a canvas. Where's the
nose, the ears, they ask?

--William Routhier, routhier@cybercom.net

2116.
NEA uproar.
Novel orifice for SPAM
shown by Mapplethorpe.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

2117.
Young, poor Picasso
stares at can from last SPAM meal.
Starts blue period.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

2184.
Creative lunchmeat,
Molded by demented chef:
SPAM weasel sculpture.

--bill mahoney, mahoney@academ.wvwc.edu

2202.
SPAM maquette of "Kiss"
Gobbled by starving artist.
Rodin..."c'est la vie!"

--Mike O'Connor (K.M.O'Connor), mickman@intonet.co.uk

2345.
Mona Lisa smiled
'cause she convinced daVinci
to not invent SPAM.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

2346.
Munch serves his guest SPAM.
The next day he paints "The Scream."
Mere coincidence?

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

2606.
Renaissance pork art's
Masterpiece in greasy pink:
"SPAM On the Half-Shell"

--bill mahoney, mahoney@academ.wvwc.edu

2715.
Here's one for Christo:
Surround small islands with SPAM
Wide pink porcine rings

--Daren Chapin, chapin@sbcm.com

2798.
Kitchen gallery:
An original Hormel!
Not breakfast; pure art.

--Larry Kunz

2896.
On lush black velvet,
an instant art world classic:
Four Dogs Eating SPAM.

--zbaird@cjnetworks.com

3093.
Newly discovered
Mapplethorpe shows SPAM in a
compromising pose.

--zbaird@cjnetworks.com

3601.
Mapplethorpe photo
shows SPAM, in a leisure suit,
doing...God knows what.

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

3632.
SPAM carving is here!
Hormel has found the best way
to get rid of SPAM!

--Applecheeks, pphhrogg@communique.net

3707.
Michaelangelo,
Leonardo Da Vinci,
George Henry Hormel.

--Tom

3794.
SPAM, eternal SPAM.
"Food," nitrates, disturbing Muse.
Scientific art.

--Mike McGaff

3911.
melting watch, fish, SPAM
a surrealist haiku...
did Dali eat SPAM?

--giles metcalfe

3912.
if Marcel Duchamp
had exhibited SPAM: a
Dadaist concept...

--giles metcalfe

3913.
Andy Warhol sits
filming can for fifteen hours:
"Chelsea Girls eat SPAM"

--giles metcalfe

3914.
a Damien Hirst
classic--"tin of SPAM in tank
of formaldehyde"

--giles metcalfe

3932.
Poke some holes in a
loaf. Voila! A Henry Moore
sculpture done in SPAM.

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

4003.
Henry Moore sculpture?
With SPAM, "Dinty Moore sculpture"
makes a bit more sense.

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

4031.
SPAM and stomach flu
My floor becomes a canvas
In 10 shades of pink

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

4034.
Edible pigment
Pork-pink skidmarked underwear
SPAM's anal artwork

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

4035.
He makes SPAM sculptures
Thinker, David, Pieta
His dog loves them so.

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

4350.
New Jackson Pollock
Painting found in Soho loft:
SPAM Spatterings 4.

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

4735.
Considerations
of cost, not taste, replaced the
ice swans with SPAM pigs.

--zbaird@cjnetworks.com

4780.
oh, spamku. are you
true art or mere distraction?
prose for the ages.

--spok, mstebbins@vnet.ibm.com

4886.
Some misguided soul
nails blue can to a canvas,
calls the damned thing art.

--Tim Bender, Nasrouddine@hotmail.com

4887.
Someone, the next day,
Nails artist to the blue can.
Martyred? I think not.

--Tim Bender, Nasrouddine@hotmail.com

4964.
Art is what it is.
Rogers and Hammerstein write.
Pigs turn into SPAM.

--Wenzel Jones, WDJTwo@AOL.com

5264.
Small nugget of SPAM
Resting in your display case
Wonder "Is it art?"

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

5386.
With pen to paper
Leonardo sketches SPAM
"SPAM" written backwards

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

5464.
With painstaking care
The artist carved blocks of SPAM
Made edible art

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

5471.
Perfect symmetry
Soft corners and sharp edges
SPAM as work of art

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

5582.
Is SPAM pop art food?
Comment on our modern world?
Ironic symbol?

--Cholesterol 300

5797.
Ukiyo-e print:
"Fifty Views of Mount Fuji
And a Can of SPAM"

--John Mitchell, jam@altagroup.com

5903.
Shaped like a puppy
It smells like a grandmother
Is it art or food?

--LisaSteveDougJulie, yungward@serv.net

5950.
"why eat spam?" asks youth
worn old gray artist ponders
"eat spam for spam's sake"

--Anonymous

6024.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed
house entirely made of SPAM.
Most unnatural!

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ultranet.com

6025.
If Falling Water
was made of SPAM, would it be
called Clogged Arteries?

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ultranet.com

6026.
Frank Lloyd Wright designs
house entirely made of SPAM.
Local wildlife dies.

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ultranet.com

6027.
Frank Lloyd Wright's SPAM house
House-warming party nightmare
Evacuation!

--Sarah Miller Arnold, smarnold@ultranet.com

6369.
cubism, dada,
abstract expressionism
one painting, all styles

--Anonymous

6372.
Monkey Spanking Boy
What's your favorite art form?
"SPAM-xotic Dancer"

--son of MSB

6511.
Spork! Tool of my muse.
Carve from the cube, my vision.
'Tis art? Or just lunch?

--Drory Benmenachem, droryb@mzi.com

6581.
Andy Warhol chose
Campbell's soup cans for brightly
colored pop art. Why?

--Phil Rectra

7700.
IF SPAM IS AN ART
FORM, HOW WOULD WE LABEL IT?
I SUSPECT "CUBIST."

--Richard Topping, richard@moduscom.demon.co.uk

7723.
SCULPTOR HENRY MOORE
FIRST PRACTICED MAKING STATUES
USING BLOCKS OF SPAM

--Richard Topping, richard@moduscom.demon.co.uk

8002.
Jasper Johns once did
Construction of U.S. flag
Out of tins of SPAM

--SPAM-Boo

8005.
"Less is more" is what
Mies van der Rohe often said
"Unless 'less' is SPAM"

--SPAM-Boo

8242.
pornoroid image
spam protruding from anus
hemorrhoid sculpture

--Thom Glidden

8540.
If Warhol had been
Cubist, would he have painted
A SPAM can, instead?

--Geoff Holme, Geoff_Holme@vos.stratus.com

8546.
Salvador Dali
His paintings were so deranged
See what SPAM can do?

--YesI'llhaveanotherslice


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